Migrating to the new Windows Store experience

The Microsoft Store for Business will be discontinued mid 2023 and Intune recently introduced the new Windows Store experience backed by winget to distribute apps to your Intune managed endpoints. To simplify the migration to the new Windows Store experience I created a PowerShell Script that migrates all currently assigned Windows Store for Business apps to the new Windows Store experience. Kudos to Sander Rozemuller for providing detailed instructions about creating winget apps as PowerShell code samples....

January 30, 2023 · 2 min · 340 words · Nicola Suter

Inside Windows package manager (winget)

Windows Package Manager (winget) provides exciting features to install and upgrade apps on Windows devices. But how does winget actually work and how are new packages integrated? Within this post I want to elaborate on some questions I had when having a closer look into winget. How does winget find sources? By default, winget has the following sources configured: msstore: Microsoft Store (public) winget: Winget Content Delivery Network (CDN) When searching for a particular package, e....

December 30, 2022 · 3 min · 588 words · Nicola Suter