Win32 app supersedence

Experiencing the app relationship viewer

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This week is a relatively short blog post, focused on providing awareness for the recently introduced app relationship viewer. The app relationship viewer can be used to see which apps are directly connected to the selected app. Those connected apps are also known as child apps. Child apps can be either dependent apps or superseded apps. A dependent app relationship is an app that is configured as a dependency for the installation of the selected app, and a superseded app relationship is an app that is configured to be superseded by the installation of the selected app. Those relationships are shown within the app relationship viewer. But not just for the selected app, but also for the child apps. This blog post provides a brief …

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Working with supersedence relationships for Win32 apps

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This week is all about Win32 apps in Microsoft Intune. Last year I’ve written a lot about the different features of Win32 apps and now, starting with the 2102 service release of Microsoft Intune, there is a new feature for Win32 apps. That feature is the ability to create supersendence relationships between different Win32 apps. That relationship can be used to update a Win32 app to a newer version of the Win32 app, or to replace a Win32 app with a different version of the Win32 app. Actually, it can even be used to replace a Win32 app with a completely different Win32 app. This post will start with the theory of supersedence relationships for Win32 apps, followed with the steps to configure a supersedence …

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