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Best practice - Win10 App Deployment - Update Management
Unfortunately there is no current solution to updating win32 apps. :-(
PatrickF11 You should be able to upload a new package file, but you need a detection rule that checks for version to trigger the install/upgrade.
You should try that. I haven't testet the upgrade scenario yet myself, but it is interesting to get an answer to.
jenstf I guess you'd have to remove the old detection rule completely, then add a new rule to detect the version you'd like to upgrade to, then upload the new package.
The deployment status wheel might look a bit messy until it's had a chance to install on all the devices, mind.
cjitsolutions Thanks for your suggestion, i will try this later today and give a feedback on this.
sbuccimsft Thank you for your response. So do you mean, i'm not able to distribute x64 apps via the app type "Windows app (win32)"? I already used that and it was working pretty good.
What way should i use to deploy apps like that?
And: What is the difference between Win32 and LOB Apps? Shouldn't LOB only be used for inhouse written applications?
- sbuccimsft
Microsoft
PatrickF11 the documentation on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/apps-win32-app-management used to be more explicit to say x64 apps are not supported. I'll get that corrected. It does say that 32-bit apps on x86 and x64 architecture are supported.
You may very well have been able to get it to work, but unsupported means that the design doesn't mean it will work consistently.
As far as when to use the 32-bit deployment or LOB method, I'd say LOB when the app is x64 for sure. As the link above says, " Intune-only customers will have greater management capabilities for their Win32 line-of-business (LOB) apps." So, based on the functionality documented on the link (scripts, etc) that are required for a successful install I would take that into consideration. Otherwise, if the LOB deployment works, just go with that.
