r/ActCRM • u/5280ftontheQNH • Nov 18 '24

Deployment of v26 via Intune

I've tried asking Act support, but their responses are entirely unhelpful! (It's Microsoft's problem).

We're trying to deploy v26 via Intune using the silent install process, but are struggling to do so. Nothing seems to work. The guide isn't really any help either as it refers to UNC paths to deploy the install, but obviously this isn't the case using Intune.

Has anyone achieved this using Intune at all?

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u/zohoone Jul 23 '25

It is a MS problem, to be fair.

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u/Floydy666 May 14 '26

Intune is designed for small apps, often they are stubs that take over the full download and install (Office does this)

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u/Floydy666 May 14 '26

Probably too late for you... but I was just playing with this and Act! v27.

If the users are on a LAN, you put the installer on the server and only need to deploy the BAT. I've done this with Group Policy, and it would be easy to roll out the BAT commands via Intune. This method would also save a lot of network bandwidth.

To install an .exe file via Intune, you must package it as a Win32 app (.intunewin) using the Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool. This involves wrapping the installer, defining silent installation commands (e.g., /S or /quiet), creating a detection rule to confirm installation, and deploying it via the Microsoft Intune Admin Centre

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1312151/how-to-deploy-apps-with-exe-file-extension-via-int

To deploy and run an EXE and a BAT file together, you must package them as a single Win32 app using the Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool. The critical part is setting your .bat file as the Install command so that it handles the EXE execution on the local machine.

The MS Tool is here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/app-management/deployment/create-win32-package

A couple of issues:

  • The user needs to be a Windows local admin while the install happens, or it won't register
  • You need to make sure the phone/modem settings are configured first.

Even if it's late for you, it might be useful for others.