The SCCM dev team tasked with improving the app management capabilities of Microsoft 365 Intune are still pushing as hard as ever. Yes, we now have application supersedence in Intune!
If you are already familiar with End Point Manager (SCCM for us old people) then you don't really need to read much past this point and just jump straight to this link.
Otherwise, why should you care?
What is supersedence, In general, supersedence is where you update or replace something. In Intune, supersedence enables you to update and replace existing Win32 apps with newer versions of the same app or an entirely different Win32 app.
There have been other ways to get this done up till now by setting a required assignment to a Win32 app while also creating an additional requirement rule targeting the old app. This is still a good solution and you should always use the right tool for the job.
Supersedence allows additional flexibility and control over how previous version or completely different apps are removed before install. Up until now this was best done wrapping your installers in something like the PSADT kit (Which I still prefer).
However if you are not using the PSADT kit currently or maybe not comfortable with PowerShell and battling with vendor installers (I love the PSADT kit by the way, give it a go!) then supersedence will give you better control over updating Intune Win32 application packages.
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