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Another fantastic question if I don't say so myself -- I have had several scenrios where I need to specify Powershell 32 bit since its a legacy app. after several failures over and over (thankfully Copilot helped here) the apps ended up needing 32 bit.
is this known by intune engineers and is there a plan to specify 32 or 64 bit so we can flip back and forth with failures
- Jason_Sandys
Microsoft
Yes, this is a known behavior that is the result of the nature of 32-bit vs 64-bit Windows and the fact that the IME in Intune is 32-bit and thus, by default, launches 32-bit binaries. There are multiple ways to handle this including using the sysnative alias: File System Redirector - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn. There are wrapper scripts as well that can be used which can easily be used with the recent release of scripts for Win32 apps (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/fundamentals/whats-new#powershell-script-installer-for-win32-apps-).
I fully acknowledge that these options aren't as graceful as having a simple checkbox in the UI to select a behavior based on the OS architecture (or something similar), but for today that's what we have. Please file feedback on this in the Intune admin center if you feel strongly that we should implement something to more directly address this.
