Greg Shields (author of the excellent Pluralsight Intune courses) lays this out better than I can Its latest planned move, according to my contacts: Get rid of the Microsoft Store for Business and Microsoft Store for Education. Microsoft is continuing to try to clean up its digital app-store mess.

In a January 2020 article Mary Jo Foley had this to say about MSfB Intune Administrators do not have the permissions to perform the initial set up of MSfB. Depending on your organisation this could be challenging to action depending on your procedures and team structure. MSfB requires a Global Admin to do the initial setup. From MSFB you can acquire the Company Portal app, sync it to Intune and deploy (as required)- Micro-Scott 🔎 May 23, 2019 I recommend connecting your Intune tennent to Microsoft Store For Business. It’s not deployed by default (there are some scenarios where self-service user portals are not desired). We have to ask the user to install Company Portal manually.Ī quick search confirms this and that the preferred method is to integrate Intune with Microsoft Store for Business (MSfB) Windows Store apps can only be made available in Intune. It surprised me that there’s no easy way to install Company Portal on a device automatically. This will dramatically improve the user experience on co-managed devices. Microsoft are positioning the Company Portal app as a cross-platform portal for Microsoft Endpoint Manager.

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