Simplify App Management and Patching with Recast

Simplify App Management and Patching with Recast

Simplify App Management and Patching with Recast

When application management works smoothly, everyone benefits: IT teams operate with fewer tickets, security stays tight, and employees remain productive. Yet for many organizations, keeping every device up to date, simplifying deployments for AVD/Citrix images, managing SSO across the environment, and supporting macOS without costly third-party solutions can feel overwhelming. Add in the need to handle custom, complex applications—where 80% of the workload often goes into just 20% of those installs—and application management becomes even more challenging. This is exactly where Application Workspace by Recast Software changes the game for modern IT teams.

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How to skip the ESP for a single app installation

How to skip the ESP for a single app installation

How to skip the ESP for a single app installation

Unfortunately, there is no native setting in Intune that lets you decide whether an app should be installed during the ESP (Enrollment Status Page) or only after it. In most cases it is a huge advantage to install as many apps as possible during the ESP, or even better during the white glove phase, so that you hand over a ready to use device after enrollment.

But there are situations where you need to skip the ESP for a single app, for example when the installation routine requires user interaction. In this guide I will show you exactly how to skip the ESP for one specific application without affecting the rest of your Autopilot Enrollment Status Page configuration.

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Detect Intune App Installation Anomalies with Azure AI

Detect Intune App Installation Anomalies with Azure AI

Detect Intune App Installation Anomalies with Azure AI

In this guide I will show you how to Detect Intune App Installation Anomalies with Azure AI. In one of my previous blog posts I explained how you can use Azure Automation and Azure Cognitive Services (now Azure AI Services) to monitor the compliance state of your environment and notify you if there are major deviations. In this part of the series I want to apply the same approach to application deployment, so you can Detect Intune App Installation Anomalies and get notified automatically if the installation of an application suddenly fails abnormally often. You can read more about the underlying service in the official Microsoft Learn documentation.

Azure anomaly detector monitoring Intune application installation failures
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Create a Desktop Website Shortcut with Microsoft Intune

Create a Desktop Website Shortcut with Microsoft Intune

Create a Desktop Website Shortcut with Microsoft Intune

In this blog I want to explain how you can create a desktop shortcut to a website with the help of Intune. You can use this desktop shortcut for example to make the opening of your company’s intranet site or web application faster and easier for the users.

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