How to Deploy the Company Portal App from Microsoft Intune

[Music] hi guys welcome to another bikebend.com video i'm in relaxed mode because i've just recorded this lab and i'm new to obs studio and i didn't have the right microphone selected so i recorded the whole lab um with no sound so i'm doing it again i've got a cup of tea a bit more relaxed um i want to say welcome to this this is the first time i've done one of these videos where we've we've got the camera up and the mic up and we're doing some live labs but you know it's cool and keeps us sharp so these videos are going to be [Music] kind of based around some of the things we hear often in the community some of the how do you do this how do you do that um you know we're on twitter and reddit and facebook and discord there's all these different channels and we often hear the same questions pop up every now and then so you know i thought i'd address those questions in a lab um one of the questions i hear a lot of is how do we install the company portal app from in tune so let's give it a crack today shall we um and that's an interesting question i suppose actually because in most scenarios you don't actually deploy the app from in june um you know i'll go into more details so there is some configuration we do in the microsoft endpoint management admin center um but it is the microsoft store for business that installs the app when we deploy the app in online mode and in this session we'll go through what an online app is an offline app is and when you use an offline app from this microsoft store business and when you should use an online app one of the reasons um another reason why this video has come up is something that we should be doing is the announcements just recently in the config manager 2006 technical preview well june of 2020 is that we can now see [Music] config manager apps in the company portal which is cool so it was announced in the technical preview back in june um it is a feature in 2006 um just released so you know this is going to be useful so some of you guys may not have deployed the company portal app you may have just started doing some co-management stuff i've only just moved some workloads over if you have moved some workloads over you've maybe moved over the client apps workload which is the easiest because when you move the client apps workload essentially you're saying let me install apps from intune and let me install apps from config manager so it's a pretty um non-invasive easy workload to move and the cool thing is now that all your apps appear in one place you know and this is actually a feature of the new company portal app so the august version of the company paul's lap that's rolling 8 version 11 means that if you have the client apps workload moved across for your clients um the apps will appear um without requiring configman 2006 you know so there are some things that um the latest version of configman does bring to the table um in client settings and we'll save that for a different video um so let's let's get back on track so today we're looking at deploying the company portal from in june okay so i just wanted to give a bit of background as to why i'm looking at that at the moment so let's pop across to our desktop and um okay in in my browser i have the endpoint manager admin center open and i also have my store for business open for my tenant and this video won't focus on how you set that relationship up i'm going to assume we've already done that so if we take a look in our tenants if we have a look at tenant administration and look at connectors and tokens we can see that we are active our store for business is linked with our in-tune tenant so that's the first thing you're going to want to make sure you've got up and running and i can pop a link in the video below to show you guys how to run through that it's very straightforward i've just done a sync here i've just pressed the sync button that will synchronize any apps in your store for business inventory with intune and it will make those apps available within the app's workspace so if we if we click on the wrong button we click on apps and if we filter by windows platform these are the applications that we are currently synchronizing with the store for business and we don't have the company portal app so let's head over to store for business and get that sorted shall we okay i've got to briefly just cover i'm not going to dwell on this um but there are two different versions of the company portal app just bear with me with this one um when we go to add the app from the from the store for business let's search for it shall we let's search for the company portal and this is just the catalog we're browsing for apps here you can see i've got the option to get the app as an online app or as an offline app now if you don't see that option you're just going to get it as an online online app only so for those of you guys doing autopilot provisioning and you want to deploy the company portal app you'll have to deploy it as an offline app and keep that managed by intune and if you don't see the option to choose between online and offline it means you haven't enabled that setting within the store for business so if you pop along to manage and then go to settings and at the very bottom you need to toggle show offline apps and once you have that you'll be able to see that distinction when you add apps into the business store so let's pop back and add our company portal app okay so we're going to get the online app just a side note if you did do decide to deploy the company portal as an offline app it will be installed via the intune management extension and you will have to manage the updates for the app as well from intune um those apps won't be updated automatically on the client's pc now when you deploy as an online app it's actually the store for business that does the installation and the application is kept up to date via the store for business so all in all intune is doing is saying here's an app go and get it it's actually the store for businesses doing all the funky work underneath anyway let's cut the chase let's get the app there we go that is all we need to install for business you know it's added it to the inventory so if i pop down and look at my apps i should see the company portal app in here we'll just give it a few moments let's just do a refresh who doesn't like the f5 key hey there we go the company portal is added to our inventory just as a side note you guys probably know this because you use a store for business but if we did want this to appear in our private store on the end user's device we can assign here to everybody or to specific groups now that would look something like this so when they access the store on their pc so they're signing into windows with an azure id account with single sign-on enabled which logs them into the store they're able to see their private tenant so we're using my byteband tenant here and if i allow them to see it within the private store they would see the app listed here so that's pretty handy you know anyway i digress strictly speaking we just need to add the app to the inventory and store for business and that's all we need to do i've run on for far too long what we then do is pop back to the endpoint manager admin center and if we go to tenant administration connectors and tokens and hit the sync button give it a moment if we head back to apps filter by the windows platform refresh and there we see the company portal now all that is left for us to do is to assign the company portal app to our users so this is a lab you maybe don't want to sign it to all users in your environment maybe you do you'll have to give that some thought i'm going to assign it to all users well actually you know let's be a little bit real world here i'm going to add it to a user group who are licensed for office 365. there we go so i've added it to the required section i've added the group for my office 365 users if i save that that's all we need to do in the admin center i'm going to pop across now to a windows 10 client that is managed by that intune tenant and don't agree on with having the old edge still installed that's another lab coming up how to deploy edge and manage edge within june okay so while that's just sitting there in the background actually i want to show you guys this if i pop along to devices in the admin sensor so this is this particular device in my lab if i have a look at managed apps i can see the company portal app is a required install and it's waiting for installation status so this device know there's an application for it we'll just hit the sync button and wait i'm gonna sip some more tea because i've done this lab twice now so i know it works so i'm pretty chilled out about it and there we go company portal app is installing great stuff now what you won't see is any magic happening in the intune management extension log so this is the store for business doing this here guys the logs aren't cracky with the store for business you can run the command ws connect let's get my zoom sorted out ws connect collect need more t w s collect dot x that is going to collect the store logs for the client they are pretty useful you know just to get an idea what's going on your pc so it pulls them as a cab file um we have to extract them and if we have a look in here there's a whole bunch of logs that tells you what's going on with the store for business um if we open the reportingevents.log we should see in here there we go so to prove this is a sunday evening it's nearly 11 p.m and we can see the company portal app had started and the company portal installation was successful boom happy days so let's just check it work shall we there's company portal we'll pin it to the start menu because it deserves its place there would open the company portal single sign-on takes effect because i have an azure id user logging in now this is going to take slightly longer than normal because this client is a co-managed client and it has the client apps workload moved across to in june and it is also called the latest version of the client from the store for business so with those prerequisites met this client is now able to see both config manager apps and apps from intune in the company portal so this is cool um as i said at the beginning the video config manager 2006 is a pre-work for some of the client settings you can change the behavior of notifications between the software center and the company portal app but to actually see the apps it needs to be a co-managed client with the workload moved across to client apps and it needs to be the august release of the company portal app and with those met you can see we have config manager apps cool so i'm just going to spend two seconds just showing you guys i know that this font is deployed on-prem from comping manager and you can click the additional information tab and see the management services config manager for the app cool i won't dwell on that because this video was all about installing the company portal from intune um i hope you guys found that useful i'm gonna put some links below um you know to help you out with that on some of the prereqs and i think we'll leave it there any questions stick in the comments below thanks for watching

Channel: Ben Whitmore

Views: 15,792

Keywords: Company Portal, Intune, MEM, MEMPowered, Microsoft Store for Business, Windows 10, co-management

Id: 2RzCixFRZbQ

Length: 15min 49sec (949 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 30 2020