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Microsoftmichaelmeyer25 All of your points are taken, and all have been answered either in the blog or the answers above. I'll answer here again for you so you don't have to scroll for them. Again, please PM me here with the number of apps you are deploying via Store for Business and the names of the apps. I am trying to hep you and your organization.
>MS blocked all store controls on Windows 11 for private store. The moment you make GPO's or Configuration Profile require private store only, it's all over donkey kong. [Joe]: True, there is no private Store tab in the MS Store on Windows 11 and recent versions of Windows 10. But we did not block the ability to run or even update the apps. We only removed the ability for a user to launch the MS Store app, click a private tab, and install an app. But that same user can use Company Portal to do exactly that, once the Store for Business is sync'd with Intune, and the app deployed to the user through Intune. And the admin can push updates to the app as well.
>This has been the biggest issue as MS (As you say) have not yet released an enterprise store, has blocked everything for Windows 11. [Joe]: Windows 11 is not blocked from running Store apps. Please see my answer above.
>The only workaround we've found so far is to download each and every APPX from the private store and then to re-upload them into MEM. [Joe]: This is not the most efficient way. Please see my first answer.
>The big headache for us is that they no longer remain updated, we have to periodically check for updates. Further due to this change, apps that once worked in user mode, don't. [Joe]: The 1st party apps should update with Windows Update. The 3rd party apps should update when you are given an update and push it to the users.
>So self service items are all dead. This was wonderful in the Private Store as users could easily do self service and install apps. Company Portal is not an equivilency. [Joe]: This is what Company Portal does - it allows the user to search for an app that has been targeted to them, and install it (among other things).
>Working with private software vendors is the easy part. Getting automatic updates no longer works (as detailed above). The hardest ones are items that are mostly MS Apps themselves where you need the APPX. [Joe]: I'm not sure I understand this one. If you are working directly with the vendor on to purchase their app, why are they not sending you the updates to their app that you license directly from them? Microsoft in-box apps will update from Windows Update/Windows Update for Business.