App Deployment - Jannik Reinhard

How to activate the uninstallation feature in the Company Portal

6. August 202322. June 2026 jannikreinhard1 Comment

The uninstallation feature in the Company Portal is something that many customers have been waiting for a long time, and now it is finally here. With this option you can let your users uninstall apps directly from the company portal, without raising a ticket or contacting the helpdesk. In this short blog post, we want to have a look at how you can configure the uninstallation feature in the Company Portal and what the user flow looks like.

Giving end users a self-service way to remove software reduces support load and keeps devices clean from apps that are no longer needed. Before we start, it is worth understanding that the uninstallation feature in the Company Portal is built on top of the standard Win32 app deployment model in Microsoft Intune. If you want to read the official background, Microsoft documents the behavior in the Microsoft Learn Intune app documentation.

Deploy Windows Store Apps via Intune

11. December 202223. June 2026 jannikreinhard4 Comments

This blog post is my take on how to Deploy Windows Store Apps via Intune. This feature makes it much easier to deploy apps via Intune. Intune provides all apps that are available in the winget repository and you can easily select them via a very large software catalog in Intune. This saves the cumbersome packaging of apps. In this blog post we will have a look how you can use this nice feature, what the prerequisites are, and what happens behind the scenes when you Deploy Windows Store Apps via Intune.

Introduction of the Intune App Creator with help of Chocolatey

1. August 202223. June 2026 jannikreinhard10 Comments

Anyone who has worked with Intune and deployed an app knows that this is a bit of work. You have to download the sources, create the IntuneWin file, create the app in Intune. To simplify this I have created the Intune App Creator. With this application you can search within the >9,000 Chocolatey packages and automatically add this app to your Intune app portfolio with just one click.

Intune App Creator start page with Chocolatey packages

How to update Quick assist with Intune

17. June 202223. June 2026 jannikreinhard

Quick assist was a useful Windows out-of-the-box tool that could get or provide PC support via a remote connection. Because Quick Assist is a pre-installed app in Windows, it can also be used to provide support during setup, e.g. via Autopilot. The experience for the user was really easy. You only have to read out a 6-character code from the client and type it into the Quick Assist app on the supporter side. In this guide I will show you how to deploy and update Quick Assist with Intune the right way.

But this is going to change. Quick Assist will no longer be a built-in tool in Windows. Microsoft posted on April 27, 2022 in the Windows Insider blog that Quick Assist will only be available via the Windows Store in the future and that support for the old client will end. So, if you want to continue using Quick Assist in the future, you will have to install it from the Windows Store.

However, there are several problems here. The first problem is that the installation of Quick Assist from the Windows Store requires admin rights. This is not always the case in a professionally managed business environment where users do not have admin rights on their PC. The second problem is that if you are using Windows LTSC there is no Windows Store to get Quick Assist from. And users get an error message about missing WebView2 runtimes.

I will show you how to solve this problem in today’s blog and how to manage Quick Assist with Intune from start to finish.

Remove Windows 11 Built-in Teams App with Intune

10. October 202123. June 2026 jannikreinhard1 Comment

Windows 11 ships with a consumer-flavoured Microsoft Teams app pre-installed, separate from the enterprise Teams client your organization actually deploys. For most managed fleets you’ll want exactly one Teams app on the device (the enterprise version), and the consumer one is at best confusing and at worst a support-ticket generator. The good news is that you can remove the built-in Teams app with Intune in a fully automated, repeatable way. This post walks through three options to clean it up: a one-line PowerShell remediation that uninstalls the consumer Teams package per-user, a configuration-profile approach that hides the Chat icon for new and existing profiles, and the tamper-resistant route for locked-down deployments.

A built-in Teams client is shipped with Windows 11. This client can only be used with a personal Microsoft account, so it is usually not welcome in corporate environments where the managed enterprise Teams client is the only one users should see. How to remove this built-in client with the help of Intune I will show you step by step in this blog post.

Deploy the Web Company Portal with Microsoft Intune

9. September 202123. June 2026 jannikreinhard1 Comment

The Microsoft Intune Company Portal ships in two flavours: the native Win32/UWP application that lives in the Microsoft Store, and the Web Company Portal accessible at portal.manage.microsoft.com. The native app is great for end users, but the web version has its place too — for kiosks, for devices that can’t sideload from the store, and for low-friction onboarding flows where you want users to start with a browser tab rather than a binary install. This post walks through how to deliver the Web Company Portal as a desktop shortcut via Microsoft Intune end-to-end.

In one of my last posts I explained how to create a desktop shortcut using a Win32 app. Now I want to show you a way how you can deploy a web shortcut for the Web Company Portal.

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