New client onboarding: 85 workstations needed standardized software stack. Chrome, Adobe Reader, 7-Zip, Zoom, Teams, and 12 other applications. Previous MSP manually installed via remote desktop - 45 minutes per machine. We needed silent deployment without user interaction.

Windows Package Manager (winget) is Microsoft's answer to apt-get and homebrew. Built into Windows 11, available for Windows 10.

The catch: winget doesn't work out of the box when scripts run as SYSTEM (how most RMM tools execute). We built a toolkit to solve this.

Downloads latest release from GitHub, installs for SYSTEM context execution.

Key insight: When running as SYSTEM, winget.exe exists but isn't in PATH. Use Resolve-Path to find it in WindowsApps and call directly.

Workhorse script with runtime text replacement. Technicians enter package ID when running - no script editing needed.

The real power of winget: keeping everything updated. Run weekly via scheduled job. Updates every winget-managed application silently.

Includes automatic log cleanup - keeps 14 days of upgrade logs, purges older ones.

Want automated software deployment? We build RMM automation that works.