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Version 1.36.0 July 3, 2026

Version 1.36.0 July 3, 2026

Release Date: July 3, 2026

Summary

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This release expands custom app upload beyond MSI. You can now upload an EXE or a ZIP (an installer plus its supporting files), add an app icon, and pick Raw or PSADT packaging, all through a guided wizard. It also corrects install detection so that installing an app never upgrades a device that already has an older version outside a maintenance window.

New Features

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  • Custom app upload now accepts .exe and .zip installers in addition to .msi. A ZIP is treated as an IntuneWin source folder: put the installer at the root, with any supporting files alongside it, and everything is packaged together. When a ZIP contains more than one installer at the root, the wizard prompts you to choose the primary one.
  • You can now add an app icon during upload, shown in Intune and the App Store catalog.
  • Custom uploads now offer the same Raw or PSADT packaging choice the App Catalog provides. PSADT (the default) wraps the installer for standardized logging, exit codes, and pre and post install hooks. For an EXE you supply the silent install switch, and for a raw EXE the silent uninstall command.
  • Detection rules now match the Intune experience. Choose a rules format: automatic Add/Remove Programs detection (the default), manually configured MSI, file, or registry rules, or a custom PowerShell detection script. This makes EXE uploads, and apps that don’t register cleanly in Add/Remove Programs, reliable to detect.

Product Enhancements

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  • App Upload is now a step-by-step wizard that mirrors the Intune Add App experience: upload, choose the installer when needed, confirm the app information, set the program and packaging, review the detection rule, and publish. The wizard shows the install and uninstall commands before you publish, and the file is inspected automatically as soon as you select it.
  • Raw MSI installs, whether uploaded or published from the WinGet catalog, now write a verbose Windows Installer log to the Intune Management Extension Logs folder. Intune collects that folder automatically, so a failed install is easier to diagnose.
  • The App Catalog now shows real app icons without your admins’ browsers reaching out to a third party. Common apps ship with a curated icon in the daily catalog index; for other apps, the portal resolves the icon once on the server when the app is viewed and stores it in your own database, so every later view is served from your instance. Anything without an icon shows a colored letter tile. A new Settings option, Resolve catalog icons automatically, is on by default and can be turned off for environments that want the curated icons and letter tiles only.
  • Catalog cards are slimmer. The installer-type badge, Homepage link, and description were removed because that data was inconsistent from app to app and made the cards taller than needed. Cards now show the icon, name, publisher, package identifier, and version.

Bug Fixes

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  • Resolved an issue where installing an app could upgrade a device that already had an older version, outside a maintenance window. Detection for an install now checks only whether the app is present, at any version, so a routine install no longer upgrades a device that is running an older build. This applies to both uploaded apps and apps published from the WinGet catalog.