Question regarding Intune App Deployment to AVD hosts

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Philipp Mair

Hi,
We're currently planning a new AVD environment for a customer who manages almost 90% of their applications via Intune, administered by a third-party provider. This means we could leverage the existing Intune apps for the AVD multi-session hosts.

Based on this article (UAM Supported Configurations), it seems that deploying Intune apps is currently only supported via deployment policies. However, this doesn’t guarantee that the apps are installed and ready during provisioning right?

Would the new feature for importing Intune apps (Intune App Import Process) help in this scenario? Specifically, is there a way to automate the import of Intune Apps once they are updated?

I believe a similar request was already raised here:
Deploy Intune apps during Image Creation process or during host provisioning

Looking forward to your feedback!
Philipp

 

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Toby Skerritt

Hi Philipp Mair,

Native Intune policies (including app assignments) can be configured to require completion before an AVD host is released from drain mode. This is a property of the host pool>VM deployment. 

UAM policies assigned to a host pool should deploy at in sequence with scripted actions, so should therefore complete before a host is released from drain mode, but we dont have a specific control for this currently. 

Regarding Intune app exports, The current intune app export process is a manual task, requiring 1 task per app. This is due to the complexity of the extraction process. We don’t offer any of the suggested automation for this. We plan to enhance the function in an upcoming release, moving to a wizard approach and allowing win32 apps to be fully imported as shell apps into UAM.

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Philipp Mair

Hi Toby,

thanks, the flag “Enforce Intune Compliance” on the VM deployment page you mentioned should do the trick for us! :)

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Philipp Mair

Hi, i have another question regarding the “Enforce Intune Compliance” setting.

If enabled, there's a task during deployment called “Waiting for all Intune policies to be applied.” Does Nerdio check this directly on the session host or does it wait until the status is reported by the Intune Service?

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