Example scenario
Imagine you're the endpoint administrator at Contoso, a mid-sized company with remote employees, a field sales force, and engineering teams spread across multiple locations. Your manager tells you to eliminate the help desk's manual app installations. Every device needs the right apps—automatically, consistently, and without anyone from IT having to touch each machine. Where do you start?
Microsoft Intune gives you a centralized platform to deploy and manage applications across all your managed devices. Whether you're distributing Microsoft 365 to the entire organization, a specialized Win32 tool to the finance department, or a custom line-of-business app to your sales team, Intune automates delivery, controls updates, and tracks installation status from a single admin center.
In this module, you'll learn how to plan your deployment strategy, work with different app types, configure targeting and update behavior, and troubleshoot failures when deployments don't go as expected.
Example scenario
You work as an endpoint administrator at Contoso. The organization runs a mix of device types and app needs: Microsoft 365 apps for all employees, a custom Win32 expense reporting tool for the sales team, and several line-of-business apps for finance and operations. Your task is to replace manual installations with an automated, policy-driven deployment system using Microsoft Intune.
Throughout this module, you apply each concept to this scenario—planning your app inventory, choosing the right deployment methods, and validating that deployments succeed across your device fleet.
What will we be doing?
In this module, you will:
- Identify application deployment options in Microsoft Intune
- Plan an application deployment strategy for your organization
- Deploy Microsoft Store, Microsoft 365, Win32, and line-of-business apps using Intune
- Configure app availability, targeting, and install behavior
- Configure app update and assignment settings
- Monitor app deployments and troubleshoot installation failures
What is the main goal?
By the end of this module, you're able to plan and execute application deployments across your organization using Microsoft Intune, selecting the right deployment method for each app type and resolving issues when installations fail.