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Windows Store for Business / Windows 11
As an enterprise customer we cannot allow the users to have the Windows Store available, Windows Store for Business was a good solution on Windows 10 as we could fine grained offer certain apps. ...
The updated Store App on Windows 11 doesn't support the Store for Business, that's why policy entirely blocks the store while the Store App on Windows 10 behaves as known.
For Windows 11 devices you need to make the apps available through Intune.
You see them synced in the Apps pane for Windows devices, assign them as e.g. available for enrolled device
Company Portal instead of Store App to be used for installing them
Jason_Sandys
Microsoft
Microsoft+1. The whole point of using the policy is to block users from installing anything from the store that has not been "approved" or curated by the IT admin. It still does this in Win 11. What's different though is that you need to use a different mechanism to make the approved/curated apps available to the end-user since the store for bus/ed does not exist in WIn 11 and that's Intune.
- That's exactly why we blocked the "public" store and used the Business Store with Win10.
Windows 11 and the "new" store was a game changer as Intune is needed as a workaround and we weren't ready with the Apps workload to be shifted and deploying company portal.
Our Win11 devices are going this route now - while waiting for the replacement of the business feature but you're working on it 🙂- Jason_SandysThere is no such thing as a new "store". The store is (more or less) as it's always been. Intune isn't a "workaround", though, it is our solution to replace the private/curated list of apps from the store for end users. This is exactly what we are working on.
Moving the workload doesn't disable app deployment from ConfigMgr so there's nothing to be ready for to move this workload to Intune. Also, the Company Portal will show app deployments made from ConfigMgr regardless of the workload shift as well.- The issue with moving all the store apps to Company Portal or ConfigMgr for us is how do we manually update these apps? We have a number of store apps that don't seem to update frequently enough (Minecraft EE for example) and in the past we just had our users open the store and check for updates manually. This is no longer available in Windows 11, at least not that we are aware of. We also aren't going to turn on the full public store just to make this option available.
