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From a device coming out of the box to an application landing on it, in the actual sequence a real enterprise deployment runs, not five disconnected slides.
Not how many applications you have. Whether they actually reached the devices they were supposed to, and specifically why the ones that didn't, didn't.
Intune is one stage in a nine-stage pipeline, not the whole story. Real tools for packaging, testing, scanning, and gating an app before it ever reaches a device.
Both live in the same 'app relationships' menu, and picking the wrong one causes two very different failure modes. Here's the actual architecture distinction.
MSI product codes, WOW6432Node redirection, PowerShell STDOUT rules, and the HKCU trap: the practical reasons detection rules lie, and how to fix each one.
The mechanics behind the black box: what IntuneWinAppUtil actually does to your installer, how the file reaches a device, and why detection rules run twice.
Microsoft now packages hundreds of common apps for you. Here's what that actually replaces, and where hand-packaging Win32 apps still holds its ground.
