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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.
Windows 11 doesn't support it anymore, Joe's post from Mid of 2021 is outdated and vage about the future.
If we block the store, the built-in apps won't upgrade anymore unless they are covered in cumulative updates. We cannot offer our favorite apps anymore.
Offering such apps via Intune (synced from Windows Store for Business) requires co-managed devices managed by Intune (at least MECM app workload) but doesn't solve the app updates itself afterwards.
Rigth now this is a show stopper to implement Windows 11 (we have 8000 comaptible devices)
What is the roadmap for such sceanrio ?
Is there something new with windows store for bussiness ? Olaf_Thyssen
JS-80 , I only can tell you what I've been done so far
We had Apps workload already shifted.
This month we shifted the Click-2-Run apps workload.
For that we deployed Company Portal to all machines as it needed to install Office apps from now
I removed all apps from the Windows Store for Business and added them via Intune as "Store App (new)"ALL Windows users can utilize the Company Portal to install apps from Store, SCCM and Intune, so it doesn't matter anymore if Windows 11 users cannot use the private store.
Jason_Sandys , why is the icon not pulled from the store while creating the new store app ? Need to manually upload a graphic ....
- Jason_Sandys
Microsoft
Puling the icon from the Store during creation of the new Store app type is currently being investigated and we hope to add this functionality in the near future.
- Joe_Lurie
Olaf_Thyssen Thanks for the shout out on the blog. The new solutions are still in development but should be ready for a private preview soon. The reason the blog hasn't been updated is that the solution isn't quite ready yet. As soon as there's something to share, we will. The timeline and solutions are still the same as last July.
Link to blog: Evolving the Microsoft Store for Business and Education - Microsoft Tech Community
- Jason_SandysAlso, keep in mind that the policy to limit users to the "private store" does in fact still work in Win 11 (although I think it's been renamed slightly in the Win 11 ADMXs) and has the same end effect of preventing the users from visiting or using the public store.
"Also, keep in mind that the policy to limit users to the "private store" does in fact still work in Win 11"
I can tell you right now that it does not, at least when set using the "Require Private Store Only" setting in Intune. It totally blocks the Microsoft Store on Windows 11 but shows the Private Store on Windows 10. If you know of another option that I'm not aware of, please share.
