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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. ...
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 🙂
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_Sandys
Microsoft
MicrosoftThere 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.
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.
- Jason_Sandys
ZebW88. Users can use WinGet to initiate app updates. You could easily create a script and wrap it as a Win32 app to do this as well or possibly use a Proactive Remediation to trigger WinGet for this.
- 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.
- While moving 15000 clients from on-premises management to Intune you do it slowly and workload by workload, having some pilot for each in between.
The apps workload is one of the easiest to move the slider but then you need to decide what to offer to end users.
They used Windows Store App and Software Center, you need to deploy the company portal if you want to have self-service for apps install available only in Intune (required assignments from Intune are working without CP). ConfigMgr you can switch to use Company Portal as front end.
At the end, the Company Portal will be the only "client" and superseding Store App and Software Center for us.
Just needs effective communication to end users and at the end you always talk about Company Portal regardless the platform.
