Who is this article for?

Administrators who want to learn to use Intune deployment.

No elevated permissions are required.

This article explains how to deploy desktop software using Microsoft Intune, including prerequisites, packaging, and app creation steps.

1. Prerequisites

• Licensing for Microsoft Intune and appropriate permissions for Intune and Azure Active Directory to create security groups
• Latest MSI installers for your applicable environment (Office 2013 (ended support 8.11), or 2016/2019 (ended support 9.0, Office 365)
• Installer for Visual Studio Tools for Office 2010 (VSTO 2010)
• Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool for Intune
• Some PowerShell familiarity

2. Azure AD preparation

To deploy via Intune, create a security group in Azure AD. You can create one policy for both applications or separate policies for each.

1. From the Microsoft 365 admin portal, select groups and click add a group.
2. Choose security for the group type and provide a name and description.

3. Add devices to the group: Azure AD Intune Groups (select group) Members.

Note: You cannot assign this per user, as the software installs at the machine level.

3. Prepare installers

1. Create a folder for the Content Prep Tool and add subfolders:
   • OnePlaceMail (add installer)
   • OnePlaceDocs (add installer)
   • VSTO (add VSTO installer)

2. Open PowerShell and browse to the folder with IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
3. Run the following commands to package the installers:

.\IntuneWinAppUtil -c .\OnePlaceMail -s OnePlaceMail_Outlook2016_2019_365.msi -o .\InTuneApps -q
.\IntuneWinAppUtil -c .\OnePlaceDocs -s OnePlaceDocs_Office2016_2019_365.msi -o .\InTuneApps -q
.\IntuneWinAppUtil -c .\VSTO -s vstor_redist.exe -o .\InTuneApps -q
  

If installing 2010/2013 versions, adjust filenames accordingly. This will create three files in a new folder called InTuneApps.

4. Create the Intune VSTO app

1. Go to portal.azure.com Intune Client Apps Apps Add
2. Select app type: Windows app (Win32)
3. Select the VSTO package file (vstor_redist.intunewin)
4. App info:
   • Name: Visual Studio Tools for Office 2010
   • Description: optional

5. Program:
   • Install command: Vstor_redist.exe /q /norestart
   • Uninstall command: msiexec.exe /uninstall {47C2CCDB-7A04-3797-992B-A84D3E90258F} /q /norestart
   • Restart behavior: No specific action

6. Requirements:
   • 32bit and 64bit architecture
   • Minimum OS: Windows 10 1607

7. Detection rules:
   • Manually configure detection rules
   • Registry rule:
     • Key path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VSTO Runtime Setup\v4R
     • Value name: VSTORFeature_CLR40
     • Method: Integer comparison
     • Operator: Equals
     • Value: 1
     • Associated with 32bit app on 64bit clients: Yes

8. Skip dependencies
9. Assignments:
   • Select required or available
   • Add the security group created earlier

10. Select create to upload the package

5. Create Intune app

1. Go to portal.azure.com Intune Client Apps Apps Add
2. Select app type: Windows app (Win32)
3. Select the package file created earlier

4. App info:
   • Name: e.g. OnePlaceMail R8.x or OnePlaceDocs R8.x
   • Optional info URL: https://www.oneplacesolutions.com/help

5. Program:
   • Install command: msiexec /i "OnePlaceMail_Outlook2016_2019_365.msi" /q SETTINGSURL=<your_solutions_site_url_here>

• Restart behavior: No specific action

6. Requirements:
   • 32bit and 64bit architecture
   • Minimum OS: Windows 10 1607

7. Detection rules:
   • Manually configure detection rules
   • Rule type: MSI (fields auto filled)

8. Dependencies:
   • Add the VSTO app created earlier
   • Set to automatically install

9. Assignments:
   • Select required or available
   • Add the security group created earlier

10. Select create to upload the package

Repeat this step to deploy the OnePlaceDocs MSI. Installing this item will automatically install the VSTO 2010 app.