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MC1160180 and MC1152323 say that the M365 Companion Apps and Copilot app will be "automatically installed" on devices with Windows 11 and M365 Desktop client apps on them. How will these apps be automatically installed? Is it being pushed through Windows store? M365 Apps for Enterprise update? Windows update? Something else?
MicrosoftMatthewWagster - both the M365 Companion Apps and the M365 Copilot App deployment settings are in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center (config.office.com), under Customization | Device Configuration, then select the Modern Apps Settings tab. You will see default deployment configurations for Microsoft 365 Companion apps and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Both of these have tenant-wide settings to enable automatic installation. If you have a separate team managing your M365 admin centers, you will need to work with them to ensure these policies are configured the way you need for your organization.
Thank you. I have disabled the automatic install in our production environment already until we can better understand the deployment method, but what we're trying to understand is HOW these apps are being deployed? We tightly control our environment and have Windows Store blocked on client devices, so we're trying to understand how these apps are "automatically installed" so we can figure out if it's blocked or not by something else we have in place.
Hi EricMoe, we know it is controlled by the Apps admin center but like to know more details how the client devices doing to automatically install the companion, people, and calendar apps. For example, is it a single A4E package that contains everything?
