CMPackager recipe not working for October/Monthly patch for common apps

Hi Team Need some help with recipe for October patch for.

it has only worked for Google Chrome, Firefox and Power BI.

it hasn't pulled anything for iTtunes, VLC Player, Adobe Acrobat Reader, NotePad++,

i have tried multiple times but still no go. in first attempt, it created the application but had no version number or data in it. which i have cleared now.

Thanks Vik

Oct 17 '23 02:10 ViksB

Hmm, I tested 7-Zip and iTunes, VLC and Notepad++ really quickly and they worked well for me:

Oct 19 '23 04:10 asjimene

Check and see if you are getting download errors in the powershell and the logs

Oct 19 '23 04:10 asjimene

thanks for looking into this @asjimene so, this VLC is older version from your list, 3.0.18 has vulnerability, it should be 3.0.19

it has worked for Acrobat reader and Notepad ++ this morning, also, it has pulled latest Chrome too. iTunes looks correct according to your list and no updates available for that.

i saw this when ran the script earlier where it didn't download latest package for VLC.

Begin Processing: VLC.xml Download Invoke-WebRequest : Redirect body{font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:0.8em;} .foot{font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:0.8em;} Click here if your browser does not automatically redirect you. WebMarshal Server: VPRDWMCPN00 (ver 7.4.5.9142) At line:1 char:71

... t/win64/$(((Invoke-WebRequest 'https://download.videolan.org/pub/vide ...
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- CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand VERBOSE: GET https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/ with 0-byte payload VERBOSE: GET https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/ with 0-byte payload Invoke-WebRequest : Click here if your browser does not automatically redirect you. WebMarshal Server: VPRDWMCPN00 (ver 7.4.5.9142) At E:\Scripts\cmpackager\CMPackager.ps1:492 char:20
... $request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$URL" -OutFile $DownloadFile -Err ...
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- CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand WARNING: Exception calling "InvokeMember" with "5" argument(s): "OpenDatabase,DatabasePath,OpenMode" Application Creation The operation completed successfully.

Oct 19 '23 05:10 ViksB

Interesting. VLC is not downloading the latest because they haven't updated the page here: https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/ with the latest version. I'll give it a bit of time before I rebuild the recipe

Oct 21 '23 01:10 asjimene