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Installing .MSI and .EXE based applications as part of Autopilot
I am setting up a POC for autopilot for my Azure AD joined devices. Looking to deploy some applications which are a mix of .MSI and .EXE based ones. I sure an article from Microsoft that reco...
I would really not recommend to have a mix of MSI (Line-of-business app) and EXE (Windows app (Win32)).
The OMA DM agent can starts an MSI installation and simultaneously the Intune Management Extension plugin can start a Win32 app installation. If your Win32 app would install an MSI as well (embedded), this will cause an issue because it's not possible to have multiple instances of Windows installer (in relation with TrustedInstaller) at the same time.
This is also documented in the following article (See Note):https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/mem/intune/understand-troubleshoot-esp#device-setup
so far with all the deployments I have done... i did not run into any problems by mixing MSI and win32 applications