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As part of the deployment and onboarding of M365 E3 and E5 licensed users, I need some help and information regarding the delivery of third-party software packages and updating them to Windows 10 and 11.
Which components and additional licenses are required to accomplish this?
Thank you in advance.
@EnterpriseArchitect Thanks for posting in our Q&A.
Based on my understanding, users have M365 E3 or E5 license are enough. intune license is included in Microsoft 365 E5 and Microsoft 365 E3 licenses.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/fundamentals/licenses#microsoft-intune-plan-1
If you want to deploy third-party software packages, it is suggested to use win32 app via intune.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/apps-win32-add
And we can add Win32 app supersedence to update this app.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/apps-win32-supersedence
Hope it will give you some ideas.
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Hi @Lu Dai-MSFT ,
Thank you for the response.
What about the patching of the already installed applications and software on my workstations?
How can Intune help me in this situation?
@EnterpriseArchitect What did you mean “already installed applications and software”？ Did you mean that these apps are manually installed, and you want to use intune to update them? If yes, there is nothing can do from intune.
If there is anything misunderstanding, please correct me.
Hi @Lu Dai ,
Yes, so is there any other alternative?
@EnterpriseArchitect Maybe using winget will achieve this. You may need to distribute once the same app via Intune Store integration, then you could push winget command to update them.
Honestly, I haven't yet tried this and there are some challenges with winget based apps distribution, but theoretically it should work.
Thank you @Lu Dai
You're welcome. I'm glad to discuss with you. : )
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@Lu Dai-MSFT At the moment Intune doesn't support updates to 3rd party applications. However, if you purchase a license for PatchMyPC, this can be connected to your Azure domain and will manage deployment and updates of a large library of 3rd party apps.
@Lu Dai-MSFT Chocolatey is also a good alternative to PatchMyPC