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Best practice - Win10 App Deployment - Update Management
Hello, as mentioned in another thread i started with a few win10 devices in a pilot phase using Intune. (iOS & Android are already in use). Now i'm facing the first situation where some apps are...
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.sbuccimsft Thank you for your recommendations.
The reason why i used Win32 instead of LOB was just that i have much more options available when using Win32, such as detection rules etc.
When using LOB Apps, i'm still not able to have a proper application update management.
I'm going to do some testing and report it back. :-)
