App inventory

Introducing enhanced app inventory for Windows devices

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This week is all about the new and enhanced app inventory for Windows devices. A lot has been written about that feature already, but it is such an important enhancement that it deserves it place on this blog as well. For many years the best thing for app inventory in Microsoft Intune was the Discovered apps report. That report provided some pretty limited insights abouts the apps that are installed on the devices and the totals for all devices in the environment. The sources used for those insights, however, were pretty limited, which was the main reason why the information was never really useful. That might all change now, with the enhancements to the app inventory for Windows devices. It now uses a new upload …

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Quick tip: App inventory for corporate-owned Android Enterprise devices

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This week another short post. Not just because I missed blogging during my vacation, but mainly to create awareness for a very interesting and often requested feature. That feature is the app inventory for corporate-owned Android Enterprise devices. Until recently the app inventory was not available for corporate-owned Android Enterprise devices, but that has changed. With the recent Microsoft Intune service release (2307), Microsoft has now made some changes to app management and app inventory. Those changes are actually triggered by Google, as Google has started deprecating features and methods of the Google Play EMM API. And even though there are alternatives within that API available, the general advise is to move to the modern Android Management API. That’s exactly what Microsoft is doing and …

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