#Modern Workplace

Back in the day when Windows 10 OS was launched, it came with a lot of built-in apps that most enterprise customers didn't want to offer to their end users. This obviously created an additional task for the administrators to find a way to remove such apps during the build process. The method of choice was using a PowerShell script to remove the apps which you could simply put in a imaging process and work away. When the management of the devices moved to the modern solutions like Intune, so did this removal process. Nothing much changed in this aspect, other than how they were setup in the Intune admin portal. I personally used this method for a long time, even when the OS moved to Windows 11, but then eventually dropped the method in favor of using the Microsoft Store app type, built into Intune. I would just import the store app, create an uninstall assignment and be done with it. It was simple and elegant. Then Microsoft replaced it with the new store experience and segregated t...

  I recently encountered an issue while deploying new store apps in a customer's tenant. While there is ample documentation on the new store functionality, I couldn't really find anything specific to my issue and thus it prompted me to write this blog post.  When Microsoft made the announcement that the Microsoft Store for Business and Microsoft Store for Education will be retiring in 2023 and there will be no support for Microsoft Store for Business and Education on Windows 11, it triggered both excitement and concern in the technical community. The new store solution that replaced the existing store functionality is integrated with Intune and has introduced new methods for managing store apps overall. There are key improvements to the most recent Microsoft Store apps functionality over legacy functionality: • One can browse and search for store apps within Intune. • One can install and uninstall with required app deployments. • One can monitor the installation progress...