Preparing an application for uploading

Before an application can be deployed by Windows Intune, it needs to be prepared to ensure correct installation. These steps are:

• Understand how the application is installed in silent or quiet mode

• Create a folder for each installation package

• Place all files needed for installation into one folder

To explain this, I will work through some examples from Microsoft, Intel, and Adobe.

Understand how the application is installed in silent or quiet mode

This is probably the most important step. The applications installed by Windows Intune do not interact with the user as part of the install process. For this reason, understanding how to make this work for each package is vital. If the file can be distributed as a Microsoft Installer package (files with a MSI extension), then there is a switch already built into the install process.

Note

One important additional advantage of MSI-based installs is that they can be uninstalled by Windows Intune. EXE installs cannot...