Supporting a private custom software repository
Chocolatey and Homebrew have over 5000 apps, and pushing in new apps is also easy.
However, we heard that some of you would like their own software package repository and install software only from there.
Tell us what you think
Thanks to you, Atera is better today than it was yesterday! The feature you requested has been implemented and released!
Please refer to our knowledge base article for more information: https://support.atera.com/hc/en-us/articles/8883471350556-Private-software-repository
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Jonasz Badas commented
I'm pretty sure you can upload files that are bigger than 20mb via the scripts section in Atera. I'm pretty sure we've had a 400mb file at some point.
Anyway, this might help some people install .msi files. There's is a CMD CURL command that allows you to download a file via CMD (or simply transfer some data from a server). The below command was used to install Screaming Frog (now available via Chocolatey):
:: Download the setup file.
curl -o setup.exe "https://download.screamingfrog.co.uk/products/seo-spider/ScreamingFrogSEOSpider-16.7.exe":: Run the setup file silently.
.\setup.exe /S:: Remove installation file once done.
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Frank Pietersma commented
I think this would be a great option.
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info info commented
I don't know any customer who doesn't use at least some individual software, so its a needed feature
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Mark Bouman commented
This would be very nice.
I do need this to -
XCloud Support commented
yes required but there should be secured way like chocolaty to upload your own msi and that will scan for threats with waiting time at least 5 hours so that we can prevent ransomware attacks in case credentials or system get compromised
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michael highland commented
I agree. I would like to push out third party software that are not in Chocolatey to clients without the need to configure scripts. I would like a repository that resides in Atera of software I want to push and be able to select it and deploy it. At least 200MB of storage. This is what I originally wanted Atera for, but disappointed in the 20mb limit.
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Ganesh Kripapuri commented
This would be invaluable, especially for installing industry-specific applications that are not in Chocolatey or other publicly available repos.
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Elad Yagur commented
That feature exists in pretty much every MDM out there.
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David Smith commented
This is a much needed requirement. This is standard in quite a few of Atera's competitors using AWS as their repository. Allows for MSP's to upload and create customised packages or a one off install of custom software/applications that are pertinent to clients. (eg not main stream). Would love to see this very soon.
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Benny Goinar commented
You can already push .msi to clients using upload script option. However there's a 20mb limit which is pretty useless.
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Dale Crowder commented
To be able to run Microsoft provisioning packages would be very nice.
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Dan Thomas commented
This is a pretty essential requirement. The lack of it is probably the one major thing that's making me hesitate on going with Atera.
Especially as it seems that despite integrating Bitdefender you cannot deploy it from within Atera itself... -
joe krause commented
For those of doing DesktopOps/RMM as a side job, Chocolatey is not easy or we don't have time. It would be good to be able to deploy software one-off, similar to Webroot process.
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Simon Ainsworth commented
We'd like this as well please, sometimes Chocolatey isn't updated to later versions for some time. We also need to install technical testing software for an engineering business that isn't on there.
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joe krause commented
Yes, I need to install Brother printer drivers, Dymo printer drivers, etc, that are not in public Chocolatey.
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Technik User commented
This feature is very important to us! Please add it!
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Gus Meyer commented
being able to create a personal repository would help with deploying proprietary software that's not listed on Chocolatey when adding new machines to the customers domain.
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Elad Yagur commented
This is a standard feature with other RMM's -
ability to push 3rd party .MSI installation to endpoints. for example - push a VPN agent .msi installation package to group of endpoints or a specific end point.
Thanks!
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Qubiti Support commented
This is a big one that'd help us. Being able to roll out our own quick support software along with an Atera installation as a backup would be a godsend.
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Adrian Choo commented
We are only able to place software which are in Chocolatey or HomeBrew in our software bundles.
We would like to upload customized software to Atera to install on our client's computers via software bundle.