After a bit of reading, the Office Insider Blog looked like it had some answers. On the Windows 10 (21H2) and Windows 11 (21H2) devices, the original Quick Assist was still present, while the Windows 11 Beta Channel device showed no Quick Assist (the result I was after). This however is where I ran into some inconsistent results. My next step was to change the deployment assignment on the app from Required to Uninstall.Īs expected, at the next Intune sync, the store version of Quick Assist was removed. The version was 2.0.5.0 (This is important for later) Because of the weekly nature of updates to my Dev channel device, I have excluded it from this bit of work.įor the three other devices, I confirmed that the new app had been deployed to the devices.

Windows 10 (21H2), Windows 11 (21H2), Windows 11 Insider Beta Channel and Windows 11 Dev Channel. In my lab, I have four test Windows devices. I proceeded to deploy the app to my Windows Endpoints successfully.įast forward to this weekend and I finally dedicated some time to start testing my theory. Logging on to Microsoft Store for Business, I searched for the new Quick Assist app and added it. So this weekend, I set to work in my Intune lab to see if this theory was something that could be a possibility.ĭeploying the new Microsoft Store version of Quick Assist was simple (ok, I did this bit several weeks ago)… From using AppLocker to block the app, along with ensuring the basics such as restricted Local Admin, good threat detection and hardening Windows endpoints (just being a few off the top of my head) is configured. Over the years, there has been thoughts around how to manage the Quick Assist app in an enterprise environment.

So after seeing that Microsoft had released a new version of Quick Assist, and reading that it is available via the Microsoft Store, I started thinking if I could use Intune to remove this new version of the App from Intune managed Windows devices. I have a few draft blogs which are starting to take the form of a series that my friend MVP Darrell Webster helped name “How I stay Intune”, but the last few months have been very busy (Work, home life – I’m a 100% single parent) and burn out is becoming a very real reality for me right now. It has been almost EIGHT weeks since I’ve written one, and that’s really too long. So this weekend, I sat down knowing I needed to blog.

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