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Deploying and managing Windows devices in education

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Wednesday, Jul 21, 2021, 03:00 PM PDT
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The education device management product team will be answering questions around deploying and managing Windows devices in education. Bring questions you have around Intune for Education, Microsoft En...
Heather_Poulsen
Updated Jul 21, 2021
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hoyty76
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Jul 21, 2021
With the announcement today of the discontinuation of the Store for Edu I want to understand if in fact there will be "NO" way to distribute paid apps via MEM / Intune or buy licenses for those on behalf of users / students?
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    Liz_Cox
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    Jul 21, 2021
    Hey Brian, that is correct. Paid applications that are already deployed will still be there. For a handful of other paid apps there might be other methods. Is Minecraft one of the ones you're wondering about?
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      hoyty76
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      Jul 21, 2021
      No, I got Minecraft all set via M365. We have some other apps that we purchased through store. Not huge investment but something. It seems like the thinking here is there will be no apps for sale any longer directly through store? Only free apps with in app purchasing or other login base licensing? If as a school we can't bulk buy apps then we can't buy apps. This just means no app sales to schools (or enterprises).
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        Liz_Cox
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        Jul 21, 2021
        Yes, I think for now we recommend working with the vendor of the app to purchase the app directly through them. Thank you for this feedback though!
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