Windows Package Manager

Configuring Windows Package Manager

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This week is all about configuring Windows Package Manager. With the ability of standard users installing apps by using winget and with release of the new Microsoft Store apps within Microsoft Intune, the configuration of Windows Package Manager gets more and more important. Of course, it was already important to have a solid configuration, but with Windows Package Manager getting a more prominent role, a good configuration is required. The good thing is that with the introduction of Windows 11, version 22H2, Microsoft also introduced new configuration options for Windows Package Manager. Before, the configuration was limited to Group Policy settings and the settings.json file. Now there are also Configuration Service Provider (CSP) settings. The Policy CSP now contains nodes for the configuration of the …

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Installing applications by using Windows Package Manager

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This week is all about installing applications via Microsoft Intune by using Windows Package Manager. A few years ago I wrote a post about something similar by using Chocolatey. That time the idea was to simply leverage the PowerShell script functionality that was just introduced. This time the idea is to leverage the Win32 app functionality together with the Windows Package Manager that is just introduced. Leveraging the Win32 app functionality provides me with a few advantages above simply leveraging the PowerShell script functionality. In my opinion the main advantages are the flexibility of the Win32 app model (think about requirements, detection rules, dependencies and notifications) and the ability to use Win32 apps during the Enrollment Status Page (ESP). Creating the Win32 app would cost …

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