If you mix the installation of Win32 apps and line-of-business apps during AutoPilot enrollment, the app installation may fail.” But it fails to say what is meant by a “line-of-business” app (and it is Autopilot, not AutoPilot). intunewin file using the Content Prep Tool), consider using Intune Management Extension. This installation of a LOB MSI is performed by the OMA-DM agent.Īs an example of poor documentation, this page Add a Windows line-of-business app to Microsoft Intune says the following: ”When deploying Win32 apps using an installation file with the. Before the IME agent, you could install applications but only if they used a single MSI file (no folders, no transform).

In this case it refers to the single MSI packages that were used before Microsoft introduced the IME agent. I have spoken to several Premier Support engineers who clearly don’t know what it is supposed to mean. The wording in Microsoft docs is particularly poor, because “LOB” can mean different things. Microsoft warns that you should not mix Win32 apps and Line of Business (LOB) apps in an Autopilot deployment. Because the Office Click to Run MSI’s are small, they are installed before other app processing has started. Policies are applied as soon as the Device Setup starts, so before even the IME agent (itself an MSI) has been installed, and before the Win32 apps to be installed have been evaluated. The IME is the agent that is used to install all Win32 apps. It is a separate MSI chained to the Office setup.īecause the Microsoft 365 Apps are installed by a policy, the installation is performed by the OMA-DM policy agent, and not by the Intune Management Extension (IME).

Teams is not actually installed as part of the Office Click to Run. The Teams Installer is the component that detects a user logon and installs Teams itself for the user, in the user’s %AppData% folder. What happens is that sometime after the other apps have been installed, the Teams MSI runs to install the Teams Installer. Consequently, you can select Teams as one of the suite of apps to install. Sometime back in about 2018 Microsoft chained the Teams installation to Office 365. What happens is that this policy installs two small Click to Run MSI’s, which then pull down the Microsoft 365 Apps like Word, Excel, Outlook etc. This sounds strange, but it is deployed by the Office CSP. Intune deploys the Microsoft 365 Apps as a policy. This is the obvious package to use to deploy Office 365.

Intune (or Microsoft Endpoint Manager) has a built in package for Microsoft 365 Apps.

Office 365 installed itself