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Evolving the Microsoft Store for Business and Education

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Joe_Lurie
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Jul 21, 2021
Editor's note: The retirement of the Microsoft Store for Business and the Microsoft Store for Education, originally scheduled for March 31, 2023, has been postponed. For the latest information on the...
Updated Mar 23, 2023
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JamesC95
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Jun 15, 2022

Joe_Lurie 
You are not wrong and you can sync the WSFB apps to MEM and deploy via Company Portal on Windows 11, which is what we have been using

 

However - I've had real issues not being able to check/trigger for updates. I reached out to MS support, after much time, ended up with this response (please let me know if you want the case number, as I've redacted that and the agent names). We ended up reverting WSFB apps to standard win32 apps just because the updating was so unreliable and MS declined to support us. So the small print, you can do this, but if it doesn't work then you are on your own.



 

Hello there, 
 
Hope you are doing great today.
My name is xxxx and i will be working with you and xxxxx on this case.
 
it is my understanding that you are attempting the use of MSFB with windows 11.
Unfortunately that is not possible, so i'm afraid this behaviour is by-design.
 
Kindly find the documentation bellow.
 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/microsoft-store-for-business-overview
 
Let us know if you need further information.