Unable to deploy app to device, rather than user context

[Bob Manjoney]

Unsuccessful in my attempts to deploy an MSI via Intune. I want to target the device context for deployment, but the drop-down to select this option is disabled in the Intune assignment GUI. There is a caveat about device context installs not being available to Windows 10 prior to 17134.81/May 2018 release, but that doesn't apply here, since the devices I'm attempting to assign are past that build. Any ideas?

Thx,

Bob

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Bob,

your problem is based on the MSI itself. The MSI can have properties to control execution context:

Here an example based on 7-zip, during upload the MSI itself will tell you what is available:

And during configuration you can limit this to a certain context then:

I guess your MSI package has a defined user execution context.

Can you check this please?

best,

Oliver

[#3]

I would like clarification, also.  

"Note

Deploying MSI over MDM in device context is not supported yet on Windows 10 devices."

From this article:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/apps-windows-10-app-deploy

[#4]

Hi. Please check MSI property ALLUSERS:

ALLUSERS=1 for Device Context

Remove property ALLUSERS for User Context

ALLUSERS=2 enables to choose context from dropdown list