WVD, Nerdio and PSADT all walk into a bar and the bar tender asks, where is Intune?
WVD said... he couldn't manage it!
Ok so that was so bad on so many levels… I am so sorry!
So, if you are still reading you are probably wondering what I am going on about?
Intune does not yet (as of writing this blog) support Windows 10 Multisession which means most people are running an SCCM server to deploy apps, not ideal if you are trying to transition to cloud native or just don't have an SCCM server.
For those of you already using WVD you will be thinking “just app attach using MSIX packages”. Yes in a perfect world with perfect apps sure thing. Unfortunately, I don’t live in that world, I live in a world of legacy and custom apps that want to do strange things in their program directory, have hardcoded links to DLL’s. That doesn’t lend itself to app virtualization in the WindowsApps folder.
Now I introduce a very clever automation and management app for Azure WVD called "Nerdio Manager for WVD", this adds much to the WVD solution but specifically to this issue it adds scripted actions.
Scripted actions allow you to easily run Powershell scripts against one or many Windows 10 Multisession hosts. Out of the box this includes installing apps via chocolatey… great! But now what about those apps in my imperfect world, you’re not going to use chocolatey for that!
Here we bring it all together with the Powershell Application Deployment toolkit (PSADT). We can wrap our imperfect apps in a PSADT package stored securely in Azure storage and deploy using a Nerdio scripted action.
There is even an added bonus that once Intune does natively support Windows 10 Multisession host you can reuse your PSADT package and redeploy it as an Intune Win32 app, Win - Win.
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