Is there a better way to upload a large Win32 app to MEM?

[Alber]

Hi,

It's painful to upload a Win32 app larger than 5GB to MEM now.

I have a total 300Mbps upload bandwidth, but the upload process always uses less than 5Mbps in average.

Even the worse, the process can't keep itself running in more than 1 hours.

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks for reading this post.

[#2]

Okay, it failed again.

Lasted about 2 hours this time.

So sad.

[#3]

Have you tried to upload the installation into Azure Storage Account, then call the installer using PowerShell.

Moe

https://www.thelazyadministrator.com/2020/01/26/deploy-intune-applications-with-powershell-and-azure...

[#4]

@Moe_Kinani 

No, I never tried that way and I don't think it's better.

Because it seems lacking some featuers like installation detection, app update and replacement.

I prefer not to use script deployment in Intune, until there's no choice, since the mechanism is without guarantee.

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Alber 

Got it and make sense!

Have you tried uploading using powershell/graph Win32LOB? 

Here are some helpful links:

Moe

https://msendpointmgr.com/2020/03/17/manage-win32-applications-in-microsoft-intune-with-powershell/

https://call4cloud.nl/2020/11/the-powershell-win32-app-express/
https://www.deploymentresearch.com/speeding-up-win32-apps-upload-via-powershell/

[#6]

i remembered i read somewhere that if have win32 app larger than 5gb, can request intune helpdesk to up the limit for the tenant.

[#7]

It’s 8 gb now, you can request more if above 8. The issue is the upload timesout after one hour using the gui, so the file needs to upload before it timesout.

Moe

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/apps-win32-app-management

[#8]

@Moe_Kinani 

The links you shared are very useful.

I just succeeded in uploading by checking the process every 20 mins in last 3hours.

Barely acceptable because it's a one-time work.

Thank you for information sharing anyway.

[#9]

Please note: Upload is 1 thing... now the 60 minutes download time-out....

[#10]

In my experience, after you upload a big app to MEM, you need to wait at least 1 day to let the CDN or cache or something to be optimized.
Then you should be good to go.