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Windows Store for Business / Windows 11
Microsoft
"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.
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+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 🙂
