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It would be nice to be able to Call/Trigger an app install via a Remediation Scripts.
And we also miss SCCM Collections - the flexibility to create groups based on several variables.- David_Guyer
Microsoft
NileshSharma
Let me see if I understand... you don't want to install any random app, but would like to say something like "Install App Named "foo" from Intune"? Is that right? Sounds like an intriguing idea... can you say more why you'd like to do that from a remediation script, rather than from the console?
And feedback heard on the groups/collections... I think the grouping team is looking into this.
-David Guyer - Intune Product Manager
Any plans for adding multiple deployments to an application similar to ConfigMgr?
With ARM devices coming back it's because more useful than running multiple applications for the same app.
Can you work on integrating app discovery with App Control for Business. My concern is that our endpoints already have a large number of apps installed through previous deployment processes, and so even with "managed installer" allowed, that does not cover previously deployed apps which then get blocked. The whole app control for business side of intune would be much easier to deploy if that team was totally looped in with the teams building app deployment, app inventory, and app updates for Intune.
- David_Guyer
danjb , I think this is a good idea, I'm hopeful we can integrate app control and app inventory to streamline scenarios like this... I have a lot to learn before I know if/how we can do this, but early looks are promising. Thank you for the feedback.
-David Guyer - Intune Product Manager - Pearl-Angeles
Community Manager
Thank you for your feedback. In additional to Per's response below, panelists covered this topic at 22:02 during the live session.
- Per-Larsen
We hear your feedback.
The way Managed Installer are working is the doing the installation Managed Instalelr are tagging the files on a NTFS level - we have no way going back on previous installed software.
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many times it is "unpredictable" how fast a change of an app comes down to a device, that already tried the installation. It's a little better for new apps, but also there it takes sometime hours to get the App show up in Company Portal on the device. At least for testing new packages this is very annoying.
If you both sync the device(s) from Intune UI plus sync the account from Settings, this usually speeds an app to be seen on Company Portal. Also restarting "Microsoft Intune Management Extension" service helps.
thats right, but only usually and is not always and predictable
Most of our applications are migrated to Intune from ConfigMgr. However, we have some rather large packages, like AutoDesk applications (some take up to 25-30GB), that we prefer to push via ConfigMgr, since it is typically much faster than going from the internet.
- Pearl-Angeles
Thanks for your feedback! This topic was covered at 11:05 during the live session.
Why speed matters: in engineering heavy industries you're giving CAD to some of your highest paid employees on hardware that is probably the most expensive hardware you give an individual.
So if I give an engineer a new $4k laptop and they need CAD ... it's really hard to tell them "Hey, don't worry, in a day or two you might get the CAD app you actually need to do your job. But maybe not, it's almost impossible to know really."
We deploy big CAD software (100+ GB) via SCCM. How to do that with Intune?
- Pearl-Angeles
Thanks for your feedback! This was covered at around 11:05 during the live session.
Many customers needs maintenance windows for all installations, not only for apps and at least for anything that needs to close/restart the app or the computer.
- Jason_Sandys
Hi NBclientmanager, besides Windows updates, can you provide some examples here please?
Applications that only can be updated, when the app is not opened and it is not possible to close the app during normal business hours. The users are mor like frontline workers and they do not care about the apps and the computer so they would not understand, why they should go to the company portal to update the app. So I would need to do a required deployment, but this also can not be installed during business hours, even when the device was turned off for 3 weeks during vacation.
Any word on macOS app improvements?
Last I talked to the PM(s) responsible: it was acknowledged that you can't effectively update macOS apps deployed as 'available'. This is a huge blocker for macOS apps right now.- Heather_Poulsen
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More controls over the timing of installs would be massively helpful, something like active hours or allowing the user to defer an install to prevent disruption.
