Understanding Microsoft Intune: Deploying Applications Using PowerShell

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O. HeaumeUnderstanding Microsoft Intunehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8850-4_4

4. Detection Rules

Owen Heaume¹  

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West Sussex, UK

 

In Microsoft Intune, detection rules are used to determine the presence of a Win32 application. The detection rule will make sure that the application installation will only occur if it is not already installed and will also help to confirm a successful installation or not.

There are three types of detection rules built into Intune: MSI, file, and registry, and, for the most part, these will meet most of your needs. When they don’t, you will need to resort to using custom PowerShell detection rules.

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