MicrosoftI have to admit I was naive and blindsided by this change; a few weeks ago, on the Windows 11 fleet, the MS Private MS Store stopped working, showing that it's blocked. All private store apps stopped working in MEM and could no longer be pushed out.
I cannot seem to find a good answer, any thoughts or articles to help would be great.
We liked the private store, it linked straight into MEM, we would purchase and make self service work through the private store. It would keep apps up to date in a controlled way so that people could not access the public store. Why they felt the need to move away from this is unclear, it worked so well.
We use the private store to buy apps for our organisation and then push them out via MEM. In MEM there is no capability in the 'Apps' section to use WinGET for apps. So my questions are?
How do we now buy apps?
How do we publish those Apps in MEM?
How do we make sure that no public apps get installed by users manually? (Assuming I have to block the MS store entirely, however how do we get our license provisions?)
The WIN-GET commands look great for manual installations from some form of repository, perhaps a 3rd party tool like PDQ can publish apps this way. We could use remediation capabilities in MEM to remove/update etc. far more complicated that the apps section in MEM.
What does MS suggest is the path forward?
