Software Center Vs Company Portal Differences SCCM Intune

Software Center Vs Company Portal Differences with SCCM and Intune co-managed scenario. Let’s learn more details about ConfigMgr Co-Management Workload Client Apps.

The Client apps workload change helps Intune deploy and manage applications and PowerShell scripts on co-managed Windows 10 devices.

Co-management can manage Windows 10 devices with two device management platforms: Intune and ConfigMgr (a.k.a SCCM).

As you can see in the diagram below, Microsoft’s strategy for device management is three (3) fold.

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1. Tenant Attach (More details about Tenant Attach).
2. Co-Management Workloads (this post is related to Client App Workload).
3. Cloud-Native Management.

Client Apps Workload

As I explained in the previous blog post, How to Setup SCCM Co-Management to Offload Workloads to Intune, once you transition client app workload from co-management properties, you can manage apps and PS scripts from SCCM and Intune.

• Any apps deployed from Intune are available on the Company Portal.
• Apps that you deploy from Configuration Manager are available in the Software Center.

NOTE! Starting in ConfigMgr version 2006, you can configure the Company Portal to also show SCCM apps. If you change this app portal experience, it changes the behaviors described in the diagram below. I have explained this behavior in the section below.

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Client Apps Workload is NOT Switched to Intune?

In a scenario where the device is already enrolled in Intune using group policy, what if the client app’s workload is not switched to Intune? As per my testing, the Intune application deployment won’t work on the Windows 10 co-managed device until you switch the client app workload to Intune. However, SCCM application deployment works as expected.

How to Change Co-Management Client Apps Workload?

Let’s see how to switch the Co-Management Client Apps workload to pilot Intune or Intune.

• Navigate to \Administration\Overview\Cloud Services\Co-management
• Click on CoMgmtSettingProd.
• Select the properties option from the ribbon menu.
• Click on the Workloads tab.
• Slide the Client Apps and switch to Pilot Intune or Intune.

• Click on the Staging tab (Only if you have selected the Pilot Intune option).
• Select the pilot collection for the Client App workload.
• Click Apply and OK.

ConfigMgr Deployments

You can check the ConfigMgr (a.k.a. SCCM) deployments from the device properties—Deployments tab. This helps you get the list of applications deployed to Windows 10 devices. I feel the view below could help analyze the application deployment details.

How to Check Co-Management is Enabled

This section helps confirm whether the Windows 10 device is co-managed.

• You can confirm the Windows 10 Client’s co-management status from the Endpoint Manager (a.k.a. Intune) portal: https://endpoint.microsoft.com/.

You can also confirm the co-management status from ConfigMgr Applet on Windows 10 devices.

• Co-management = Enabled.

Client Apps Behavior

This section will explain the Co-management deployment behaviors with Intune and ConfigMgr (a.k.a SCCM) and how the application and PowerShell script deployment behaves in a co-managed world.

• The company portal shows the applications deployed by Intune and Configuration Manager (a.k.a SCCM).
  • Intune – Available applications are deployed to users of the AD Group.
  • ConfigMgr – Available applications deployed to users or device collection.

NOTE! – To install & manage SCCM applications from the company portal, you need to have connectivity back to SCCM infrastructure via corporate network/VPN/CMG. The same applies to the software centers as well.

Software Center shows only the applications deployed as available & required from ConfigMgr (a.k.a SCCM).

Tips & Updates

Also, there are options in client settings policies to enable either the software centre or the Company portal for the following workloads.

Resources

• ConfigMgr Client App Vs SCCM Software Center

Overview Windows 10 Co-Management with Intune and SCCM 
Custom Report to Identify Machines Connected via SCCM CMG  
How to Setup Co-Management - Introduction - Prerequisites Part 1 
How to Setup Co-Management - Firewall Ports Proxy Requirements Part 2 
Setup Co-Management - AAD Connect UPN Suffix Part 3 
Setup Co-Management - CA PKI & Certificates Part 4 
Setup Co-Management Cloud DP Azure Blob Storage Part 5 
Setup Co-Management Azure Cloud Services CMG Part 6
SCCM Configure Settings for Client PKI certificates Part 7
How to Setup SCCM Co-Management to Offload Workloads to Intune - Part 8 (This Post)
How to Deploy SCCM Client from Intune - Co-Management - Part 9
End User Experience of Windows 10 Co-Management - Part 10

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Author

Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years from 2015 onwards. He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.