Managing app supersedence and dependencies

This recipe looks at the functionality around application supersedence and application dependencies. As it involves amending existing applications we will not be looking at automating and instead why you would use these and how to implement them.

Application supersedence

When a new version of an application is released, you have a few available options:

• Replace the IntuneWin file with a new one and amend the detection method so that it matches the newer version
• Create a new application and swap the assignments
• Use application supersedence

Everything will work fine, but supersedence gives you the option to remove the previous version before installing, or just do a straight update. It also makes things easier to manage as you do not have to worry about duplicate assignments or monitoring multiple applications.

Dependencies

One drawback of Intune/Autopilot is their inability to sequence applications like Configuration...