Reinstall discovered apps on device refresh/replacement

Brendan Doyle 1 Reputation point
2022-02-09T16:38:43.637+00:00

We are currently evaluating Intune as we plan a migration to Azure in the future. Currently running Config Manager 2107, Windows 10 on all clients, supporting about 35,000 endpoints and about 8,000 applications. One of the biggest issues we have currently, is that the majority of our applications are device-assigned, so when it comes time to refresh or replace a device, it can take a day or two to get the new device ready- from imaging the device, installing all the required apps that all devices get, evaluating all the collections that the old device is a member of and then adding the new device to all of those collections, then re-installing all the software. We are looking to replace 7,000 devices this year and I have been tasked with trying to make that work more efficient, (which is basically impossible I am finding out) however that isn't the point of my question.

Looking forward, is there a functionality within Intune, to do a like-for like device swap and have the new device get all the apps associated to it that the old device had installed? I see that Intune has a Discovered apps feature which looks like it is already part of the way there. Thanks in advance for any advice.

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  1. Reza-Ameri 16,836 Reputation points
    2022-02-09T16:46:32.29+00:00

    I believe your scenario will work the best using Windows Autopilot, take a look at:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/autopilot/windows-autopilot

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  2. Crystal-MSFT 43,721 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2022-02-10T01:52:50.83+00:00

    @Brendan Doyle . For discovered apps in Intune, it shows the apps monitored for personal or corporate devices. But not all the apps are there.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/app-discovered-apps#details-of-discovered-apps

    Currently, in Intune, it provides the app management capabilities in the following link:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/app-management#app-management-capabilities-by-platform

    For the capability a like-for like device swap, we don't have this one now. But you can feedback to uservoice to see if we can have it in the future.
    https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/ef1d6d38-fd1b-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472

    For our situation, you can see if there's any general app list for the users and try to deploy them via Intune. There are a lot of app types we can choose in Intune like Microsoft 365 app, win32 app, LOB app and etc. We can see more details in the following link:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/apps-add#specific-app-type-details

    Hope it can help.

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