Most of the apps in the Store are UWP which give a less-than-optimal user experience. I tried deploying TeamViewer this way and the on option was UWP and the app was worse than useless. Until we see a lot more Win32 apps we still need to create packages. And what about Microsoft retiring the store? What happens then?
I can't speak to all the UWP apps in the store...but the ones I have used have worked as I expected. if you found a "bad one" I'd give the feedback to the app owner so they can fix it. As for the Win32 apps...like SysInternals in the store...they work great from my experience. as for the store going away...you never know I guess...but with WinGet and Chocolatey etc. in the marketplace this isn't a real problem. I'm accessing the store with WinGet...but I can use WinGet directly if I had to.
to be clear there are 2 AVD related apps you could grab from the store. The AVD client which is a store app vs. the Windows AVD client App. Secondly you could install the AVD agent and bootloader to the session hosts. The store app client does NOT have all the features that the Windows client does. So if you are choosing to use the store client...please let me know why.
winget is the native package manager windows has been desperately needed for a long time. now hopefully MS will remove the enterprise SKU level lock on proactive remediation to the business premium folks so they can keep all of their fancy winget deployed apps up to date automagically
Hi Dean nice video. It's interesting because we are already combining AVD Multi and Single with Intune / WinGet. But we currently looking for an Integration with Azure ImageBuilder and Intune. So for an Example, Azure ImageBuilder Starts Creating an Image and do an Intune Join and installs Apps which are assigned to that image. Do you think this is possible?
There is no direct way to use AIB and Intune…YET! For now you create the image in AIB export it from the compute gallery as a managed image and import into Intune Once your VMs are built and managed by Intune you can deploy apps with WinGet
@@AzureAcademy The problem I found with this is it will only install in the user context. For example I want to install Company Portal to the Device and not the user so it is installed in the ESP. The way around this is to run the winget command in a script directly as the system user.
I am still using Chocolatey with Win10 Multisession edition (AVD). Seems WinGET only appear at latest Win10 version and Win11 with very limited applications. e.g. you cannot find certain legacy version of Firefox. but good to know there is another way to do all AVD setup in 1 shot for replacement of Chocolatey (later...).
Yes! Do exactly what I showed in the video and install VLC it is a win32 app Just as easy! Now if you want to deploy your OWN win32 apps…stay tuned for my next video in WinGet!
Hi Dean, Just to clarify, as UWP data is stored in %localappdata%, do UWP deployed apps via Intune work in AVD with FSLogix profile containers? If so, what is the correct approach, do we need to use the redirections.xml?
Yes they do. Each users app data folder is contained, by default, in the users FSLogix profile…so you don’t need to do anything. The redirections.xml is used to exclude things from the profile…so not needed in this case.
Hi @@AzureAcademy. General overview with capabilities/limitations. Really interested for the W365 use case where preference would be to use the default image but have options for custom apps thru WINGET. Can it be used to deploy non-Microsoft Store apps as well like 3rd party browsers, etc. Thank you, as always.
Please sir advise me where I can get that screensaver, I have multi mon and would like to make a background out of it! thank you again for your excellent content sir.
@@AzureAcademy About 48 seconds in.. seems like a moving snake.. it is running on your dual display behind you. If you reply and tell me that it is part of your green screen setup, then I will be embarrassed lol. Thanks for taking the time to reply even though this is 100% off topic. TY AA!!
oh that...yeah that is a video file that I rotoscoped into the monitors through green screen...that isn't really my office! The power of movie magic! I don't remember where I downloaded it from. 😉
Thanks for the nice Video :) I would be interested in how to set up a private repository and roll out custom enterprise applications over it. How do I get these applications into a Win Get repository?
Anyone can submit an app to the WinGet repo…but it is many steps…and this is the public repo, not a private one. I will look into private repos and see what I can find for you
@@AzureAcademy I have already taken a look at Microsoft's reference implementation on github (winget-cli-restsource). But it's a very rocky road to work through all these things ;-)
