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Update an app which was manually installed by the user
We onboarded a few devices to Intune. Users have all sort of apps installed on their devices. Now, I want to update those apps. E.g. user installed notepad++ version 7 two years ago, and I now want t...
- Two things worked out in the end:
1. Manually uninstalling the app on the client, then installing the newer version using a win32 app
2. Deploying a PowerShell script from Devices > Scripts to the machine which uninstalled the app remotely, then waiting for the win32 to be installed on the device.
I think it's best to push out the update package and continue from there
How exactly do I push an update package?
- By installing the current version, please test but my experience is that when you install a newer version of Notepad++ with the /S (Silent) parameter.. That it just updates it. For the next versions you can use the supersedence
I just tried that our and got this error in Intune:
Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue. To configure or remove the existing version of this product, use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel (0x80070666)- If you do it without Intune, on the client itself, does that work? And was the MSI version installed of the .exe version?