Why is finding MSI downloads for Windows so Difficult?

[abarzyk@smbtrials.com]

If you go to the download page (Duo Software Checksums and Downloads | Duo Security), it has the checksums for DUO Desktop for Windows but no place to download. Now we need to waste our time hunting for the MSI to do updates. Which we do monthly and ignore DUO because we can never find it. Is that good security? Do you not what your customers to have the latest versions of your software? I found an .exe file but that's useless in our environment and I refuse to waste time pretending to run the installer so I can grab the extracted files from some hidden folder. This is a deal breaker and unless these files are accessible, we are done with DUO.

[Jonatan Jonasson]

Hi,

If I click on the link you provided, and go down to Duo Desktop, and in the "Windows 10 and Later" section, there's a white "Download" button right below the SHA-256 checksum, which will download an MSI package.

(See screenshot attached/below.)

Additionaly, for many (all?) DUO downloads, there's also a -latest link available.

So currently, instead of using https://dl.duosecurity.com/DuoDesktop-6.12.0.msi (which will get you this exact version), you can also use https://dl.duosecurity.com/DuoDesktop-latest.msi , which will give you the latest version (currently 6.12.0).

Using the -latest link you don't need to find a new link every month.