Patch My PC Feature and Application Request
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For public libraries. I believe the Desktop version would be easier to manage versus the Windows Store version.
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As we are in the educator sector at the moment Minecraft is heavily used as a teaching tool at the moment.
Doing it manually through intune requires us to set it as available as well as as a required app to get the available apps updated which is an extra overhead for one single app
ideally windows package manager would sort it but not holding my breathe for their release ETA
The win32 app would be ideal as the store for business is being deprecated/changed so that students wouldn't be able to download it from the store anyway. (Store/UWP/Appx & the Win32 app don't intermingle very well in terms of multiplayer etc.)
Pretty simple to implement, you just need to extract msi and accompanying files from the .exe downloaded here:
https://aka.ms/downloadmee-desktopApp
..and then its your usual msi silent install flags/detection methods etc.
This would be very helpful for our organisation, its installed on over 180 workstations, used for teaching and learning. We cannot use the store app version because that installs for the user and not the workstation meaning when its installed in a classroom (hot-desk type workstations) each user would need to install it and that is not practical. The version mentioned here is for the machine-wide installer meaning all users can easily access the software.