MicrosoftThis is also causing us many headaches, as a lone MEM admin in a team of 2 people it's time consuming setting things up but I work in the knowledge that overall it saves time on repetitive tasks. Unfortunately this latest change is now taking too much time to understand how to set up, let alone actually set it up, so MEM may have to be abandoned as managing windows store apps is almost impossible now, not that it was great before.
The new store has arrived on our machines now and we can't even find apps in it that appear in the search, clicking a search result tells me 'Oops try searching'....imagine my joy first thing on a Monday morning! An example is trying to add the new Dell Maxx Audio 2021 app, the app isn't in the business store to add so I went to the Dell support page and downloaded the installer, which directed me to the store app. I could add it without a personal MS account, there's no way to link to it in the business store from there so how do I now re-install the app?
I At one time I swapped to the offline Company Portal due to builds failing connecting to the store during build. But I'm confused as apparently the offline one needs to be updated, however we never had to download anything so it must be connecting to the store to get it and then it was updating by the store. What does the offline and online truly mean in an Autopilot build if this is the case?
This is akin to the new EV car mentality; We have something brand new that's going to be the answer to everything, however it won't be fully ready for a few years because we're not quite sure how we're going to make it work the way it needs to. By the way we're going to stop you using the old thing that works before this new one is ready, good luck!
I'm sincerely disappointed in how MS has handled this more than any other change I've known in 25 years of IT.
