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Yebubbleman
Oct 10, 2022Copper Contributor
Removing Microsoft Store Applications via Intune now that Microsoft Store for Business is Deprecated
Hi! We have a Microsoft 365 Tenant with Microsoft Intune. We are currently looking to move to a more modern deployment process instead of using on-premises deployment technologies. Part of our proces...
Oct 10, 2022
Winget/Windows Package manager will be the solution for that as the replacement of the Windows Store for Business, see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/evolving-the-microsoft-store-for-business-and-education/ba-p/2569423 and https://call4cloud.nl/2022/06/the-microsoft-store-for-business-the-curse-of-the-retirement/
- YebubblemanOct 10, 2022Copper ContributorI mean, I get all of that. And that's what I've seen before in my research. But hell if that's an EASIER solution than the one Microsoft is currently taking away from me. Unless I missed something, but nowhere in there can I, from Intune, specify apps that I want removed. I can add apps from the Microsoft Store with no problem. But removing them? Seems like they are just giving me another scripted alternative to Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage and Remove-AppxPackage and nothing that I can control directly from Intune...
- Oct 11, 2022You can still add the microsoft store apps from the msfb and choose to uninstall them... that would make them removed from the device.
Also just as Harm mentioned... the new evolved ms store is coming.. and I assume (I pretty know for sure) ms will has us covered with install and uninstall options fro the store apps.
Of course you could also push the app with a win32app and an uninstall command you also mentioned (depending on system or user context)