Joe_Lurie​ Thanks for mentioning Robopack. Yes, Microsoft did partner with Robopack to help customers migrate from ConfigMgr or other legacy 3rd party solutions to Intune quickly and easily. Please update your team and especially the panel speakers who work in the application space as they seem to be unaware of this. Using native Intune or Co-Management as suggested by a panelist is not the solution to migrate applications to Intune and to get customers on the Cloud Native journey sooner. Please feel free to reach out (you know how to find me) if there are any questions or if I could further assist. Here's a link to the partnership announcement: 

Face the future today by moving your application to cloud native - Microsoft Intune Blog

-Ex Microsoft Colleague 

We sometimes have the need to deploy macOS apps with Intune to specific devices which do fall into the category of our "normal" dynamic device groupings.  If we could create groups using specific serial numbers of our macOS devices, this would solve many of these types of problems.

Question is:  is there a way to define static and/or dynamic groups in Intune for macOS using device serial numbers?  And if not, is this in the planning?

Many thanks from Hamburg, Germany.

I just gave up an hour of my day to reply to Pearl... can I just sanity check... this site accepted my reply but then just deleted it because you're blocking replies to Pearl?

Thanks for your participation in today's AMA! Q&A is open through this Friday at 12p PT, so don't hesitate to post your questions here. 

Below are the questions the panelists answered live, along with associated timestamps: 

Question – WinGet, Store, EAM.... so many catalogs of Windows apps. Why use one over the other? – answered at 2:49.

Question – This question is more on Intune MAM side, will there ever be a day when we can have multiple work accounts on a BYOD device under MAM controls? Is this being investigated and/or worked on? – answered at 5:14.

Question – What are best practices in relation to authorizing third-party applications? – answered at 7:38.

• Join the Microsoft Mac Admins group on Intune

Question – Hi from Bavaria, what is the best practice for app deployment with Intune? – answered at 13:17.

Question – Can we have better reporting for apps when they fail rather than depending on scripting to create a log file and dig for that file? -- Maybe talk about what's available today and where we are investing. – answered at 18:29.

Question – What would be easiest way to migrate existing applications from SCCM to Intune? – answered at 21:42.

Question – Are there any plans to have Application Groups (like in ConfigMgr) in Intune? – answered at 24:02.

Question – I am trying to use Microsoft Connected Caches for Enterprise to expedite delivery of Intune win32 apps. Especially extremely large packages. It doesn't seem to be working for us at the moment. Is there anything more you are doing or could be doing to ensure that (a) we can cache or encourage these things to cache locally and (b) we can monitor and troubleshoot it more easily? The monitoring for MCC seems to report very low figures for Intune. – answered at 24:36.

Question – Is there any plan for the ability to auto update apps with EAM without the need to monitor for apps with updates and manually selecting update? – answered at 26:48.

Question – What are best practices for deploying applications that install in the User Profile rather than the C Drive? Especially including App Control for Business as the system you are using to prevent installation paths such as the User Profile. – answered at 28:13.

Question – What are the current best practices for handling parallel versions of the same Win32 app in Intune, especially in scenarios where multiple versions can conflict with detection rules or supersedence during Autopilot provisioning? – answered at 34:04.

Question – Can you please explain how to deploy apps using the new PowerShell script feature? – answered at 37:47.

Question – What is the best way to UPDATE Win32 Apps, when an app version is packaged as win32 but for install method, a power shell script been used? (The PS script is a great move, btw.) – answered at 40:00.

Question – We deploy Office Apps via Intune (fully Intune environment) When I go to Monitor -Discovered Apps there are many different versions, eg Microsoft.OutlookForWindows has 30+ Different version numbers. Currently deploying on Current Channel, is there any way to bring them all up to the latest version without having to manually select a specific version number in a faster way? – answered at 41:15.

• TCL link here

Question – QUESTION from Abhishek on Tech Community -- Are we building anything like software metering. Usage reports are really important for licensed apps. If there is a custom solution, could you please clarify it? – answered at 45:25.

• Please share your feedback at the Intune feedback portal!

Question – We have macOS devices enrolled without user affinity. Is there a way to deploy apps as available in Company Portal rather than them being required? if not is this in development at all? Loving the sessions, some great questions/answers that have been really helpful. Thanks Folks. – answered at 47:52.

Here are some MacOs resources:

• MacOS payloadless apps
• Understanding App Types in macOS Intune  
• Understand pre-install and post-install scripts for macOS in Microsoft Intune 
• Join the Microsoft Mac Admins LinkedIn group

Is there any future plan, to allow customizing the Install/Uninstall button in the Company Portal app to display any custom label?

With Microsoft introducing Enterprise App Management (EAM) as part of the Microsoft 365 suite, I wanted to understand the long-term direction for WinGet.

Since WinGet is currently an open-source community-driven solution for app discovery and deployment, while EAM provides a curated and managed app catalog within Intune:

Does Microsoft see EAM as a replacement for WinGet in enterprise environments, or as a complementary solution?

Are there any plans to change WinGet’s open-source nature or limit its enterprise usage in favor of EAM?

In ESP, is there a way to find out which application is being installed? Usually there is a list of apps being deployed

The big pain point is bulk managing/correcting primary users. Mg Graph have limited cmdlets which do not address this. There should be some attribute like “most logged-on user on a device” and some global setting to set it as primary user. Any plans to address that?

Thank you everyone for your participation in today’s AMA! The session has now concluded, but you can continue posting your questions here until Friday at 12p PT. Catch the next AMA at 10:00 AM PT: AMA: Best practices for applying Zero Trust using Intune. 

My question is not answered yet and I heard the host saying we are out of questions 😩