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Join the Intune engineering team for an interactive session on streamlining app management with Microsoft Intune. We’ll talk about current investments and what we're exploring next—then open the floo...
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Updated Mar 05, 2026
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Jason_Sandys
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Mar 09, 2026

Hi Chris650​, Is this still a challenge. I thought that this was addressed/closed?

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Chris650
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Mar 10, 2026

It has not. The installers downloaded from apps.microsoft.com bypass the local settings for the app store. Coupled with "free" apps not requiring a sign in to download the apps leads to users trying to install apps and a multitude of workarounds to block them without breaking all app store apps like the ones that are properly pushed through intune.