Many MSPs use Plentics every day for third-party patch management, Endpoint Management, Tenant Management and Alerts and Analytics. One part of the service is easy to overlook, though: Plentics builds customer-specific applications and configurations for you.
With Plentics’ custom application packaging for Intune, Plentics turns your customers’ software requirements into tested, ready-to-deploy applications. Plentics Custom Configurations complement these applications with customer-specific settings, backed by decades of application packaging and endpoint management experience.
They are delivered through Plentics Endpoint Management alongside Plentics Applications and Plentics Configurations. For your customers, that means a significantly better end-user experience. For you, it means less manual work, faster onboarding, and a service you can sell.
Terminology used in this article
| Term | Meaning |
| Plentics Applications | Ready-made applications available through Plentics. |
| Plentics Custom Applications | Customer-specific applications packaged, tested, delivered and maintained by Plentics. |
| Plentics Configurations | Ready-made settings and configurations available through Plentics. |
| Plentics Custom Configurations | Customer-specific settings and configurations delivered through Plentics. |
The Day One Experience
It’s Monday morning. A new employee opens their laptop for the first time.
The company wallpaper and lock screen are already in place. The brand fonts are installed, so the first presentation looks right. The office Wi-Fi connects automatically, the nearest printer is ready, network drives are mapped, cloud drives are synced, and the taskbar shows exactly the apps the team uses.
Behind this experience are Plentics Applications and Custom Applications, which deliver the required software, and Plentics Configurations and Custom Configurations, which apply the customer-specific settings.
No manual configuration was needed.
Plentics Custom Configurations
Plentics Custom Configurations are not applications. They are the settings and small details that make an endpoint feel like it belongs to the company. They also cover requirements that go beyond standard Intune configurations or require additional customization. Here are some examples.
- Branding: company fonts, wallpaper and lock screen
- Connectivity: printers, Wi-Fi profiles, VPN connections and network drives
- Workspace: taskbar, start menu, browser start page and bookmarks
- Productivity: Outlook settings and cloud drive sync
- Device security: BIOS/UEFI settings, including passwords, and certificate deployment
- Device replacement: moving user files to OneDrive and restoring them on the new device
Plentics Custom Applications
Plentics Custom Applications can cover a wide range of software your customers rely on. Each application can be preconfigured with customer-specific licensing, settings and connection details where applicable.
Examples of Custom Applications we have built include:
- Document management and PDF: M-Files, Adobe Acrobat, and PDF-XChange Editor, preconfigured with customer-specific licensing
- Design and engineering: Adobe Creative Cloud, AutoCAD, Archicad and ArcGIS Pro, including updates, plugins and localized versions
- Remote access: Cisco Secure Client and Check Point VPN with the customer’s VPN settings ready
- Security and management agents: deployed with the customer’s own keys
Tell us what your customer needs, and we’ll assess how it can be delivered as a Custom Application.
macOS Too
Plentics Custom Applications and Custom Configurations are not limited to Windows. We also build them for macOS. Examples of Custom Applications include VPN clients such as FortiClient and Palo Alto GlobalProtect, as well as security agents, all preconfigured for each customer. These Custom Applications sit alongside familiar Plentics Applications in the standard macOS catalogue, including Microsoft 365, Teams, Chrome, Zoom and 1Password.
Explore our broader approach to macOS management with Plentics.
From On-Premises to Cloud-Native
Plentics Custom Applications and Custom Configurations are also a practical way to move to a full cloud model. Legacy applications are often still distributed through SCCM, and many settings still live in Group Policy. Many Group Policy settings can be handled with Intune’s Settings Catalog, while Plentics can help migrate other configurations and legacy SCCM packages into Intune-ready Custom Applications and Custom Configurations. Your customers keep the applications and settings they rely on, and you can move them to cloud-native management without rebuilding everything from scratch.
How It Works
Learn more about our application packaging and testing process and the checks completed before deployment.
Plentics prepares and tests each Custom Application and Custom Configuration from start to finish. Once completed, it is automatically delivered to the customer tenant, either unassigned or assigned to a group you specify. From there, you manage these Custom Applications and Custom Configurations in Plentics alongside your other Applications and Configurations. Plentics can also deliver updates and changes when needed, helping you keep customer environments consistent, up to date and secure over time.
See how ICT Elmo uses Plentics to streamline software deployment and customer onboarding.
Final Thoughts
Plentics Custom Applications and Custom Configurations turn work that is usually completed by hand into a standardized, repeatable part of your service. For MSPs, this means:
- A polished experience from day one for every new device and every new employee
- Less in-house packaging and configuration work: we prepare and test, you deploy
- Ongoing maintenance and updates provided by Plentics when needed
- A service you can sell to your customers
- A smoother path to the cloud by converting legacy SCCM packages and Group Policy settings into Intune-ready Custom Applications and Custom Configurations
- The same standardized model for customer-specific software and settings as for everything else in Plentics
- Windows and macOS covered from the same platform
Which applications or settings do you or your customers still install or configure manually?
Contact us to discuss your requirements and how Plentics Custom Applications and Custom Configurations could help.