How can I deploy and maintain a specific Windows Store app using Intune?

Question

Our customer is using the Windows Camera app from the Microsoft Store.

Recent app updates have made the app difficult to use for our customer, and we confirmed that an older version of the same app worked as it should.

Even though we disabled automatic app updates through Microsoft Store settings, the app somehow still updates by itself.

We have manually been downgrading the app version on the PC's, but I would like a permanent way to maintain this specific app version on a specific number of PC's.

Is there a good solution for maintaining a specific version of a Microsoft Store app on a specific set of PC's via Intune and preventing this specific app from updating?

Answer 1

@Kenneth Clausen - nyit.dk, James,Thanks for posting in Q&A.

From your description, I know that you want to maintain a specific version of a Microsoft Store app via Intune and prevent it from updating.

Based on my researching, I find that if you deploy apps from the Microsoft Store via Intune, they will automatically keep up to date to the latest version of the app. and if you enable Turn off Automatic Download and Install of updates, the UWP app will not update automatically and keep the specific version.

Moreover, you can deploy it as Win32 app or LOB app to maintain a specific version of a Microsoft Store app, they will keep the specific version that you have uploaded and deployed, and they will not automatically update unless you upload an update package.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/apps-win32-add

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/lob-apps-windows

Hope this can be helpful.

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Answer 2

Thank you for the answer - That helped me a bit on my way.

We've come across an issue with the suggested solution.

We need to remove the camera app that is installed on all of our Windows clients and then install an older version of the same app afterwards.

It works to manually remove the pre-installed(updated) version of the app and then sync the device with Intune to install the old version of the same app.

That, however is not a good solution in this scenario, we are dealing with approximately 200 clients.

I need a solution that does the following:

1. Removes the existing camera app from all devices
2. Installs the specific camera app version that I created as LOB app on all devices

It is important that this is done fully automatically without user intervention and that the "correct" version of the camera app does not get removed after the installation because Intune tries to automatically uninstall this specific app.

Thanks again for your time and effort. :)