Migrate to Intune More Efficiently by Preserving Your Existing App-V Packages
We recently announced the Intune Storefront feature in Cloudpager, a game-changer that enables administrators to effortlessly publish Cloudpaging application containers directly into Microsoft Intune. This integration brings together the agility of Cloudpaging with the familiar management capabilities of Intune, allowing IT teams to treat these modern containers like any other Win32 app.
What does that mean in practice?
It means you can now:
- Eliminate install failures caused by system inconsistencies.
- Guarantee clean application uninstalls, removing lingering files and registry entries.
- Enable seamless updates and rollbacks, removing friction from application lifecycle management.
- Deliver apps faster and to more endpoints with the efficiency of cloud-native technologies.
Cloudpager Accelerates Your Move From App-V to Intune
What we didn’t fully explore in our launch announcement was perhaps one of the most timely benefits of all: Cloudpager provides a fast and efficient way to optimize existing App-V packages with the Cloudpaging format, opening up a straightforward migration path to Intune.
Currently, Microsoft Intune does not support App-V packages natively. While Microsoft has reversed its deprecation of the App-V Client and Sequencer, the App-V Full Infrastructure (Management Server, Publishing Server, etc.) is still scheduled to go End of Life in 2026. This presents a looming challenge for organizations still relying on traditional App-V infrastructure.
To manage App-V apps in Intune today, enterprises must resort to:
- Deploy using the MSIs (if they have them which is time consuming), or
- Scripting custom wrappers to bring .appv files into Intune Win32 apps, a brittle and manual workaround.
Cloudpager removes that friction. By publishing App-V packages into Cloudpager you immediately gain the ability to publish and manage those apps in Intune without the headaches.
Why Win32 App Features in Intune Matter
Once a Cloudpaging container is published to Intune as a Win32 app, you can leverage Intune’s full suite of enterprise-grade app management capabilities, including:
- Dependencies: Define prerequisite apps that must be installed before the primary app. For example, you can ensure the Numecent client software is installed before attempting to deliver the containers.
- Supercedence: Manage app updates and replacements more effectively. You can define one app version to automatically uninstall and replace another, enabling zero-touch application upgrades.
- Requirements Rules: Set conditions for app installation, such as specific OS versions, disk space, or presence of certain registry keys.
- Detection Rules: Confirm whether an app is installed on a device using registry, file, or script-based methods to prevent unnecessary re-installs or incorrect status reporting. By default, any application published from Cloudpager already has a unique Detection Rule set.
Together, these features enable highly targeted, automated, and reliable application management at scale.
Cloudpaging + Intune = Future-Proof Application Provisioning
The combination of Cloudpaging’s robust containerization technology and Intune’s modern cloud-native management platform provides enterprises with a future-proof solution for application delivery, especially as legacy solutions like App-V infrastructure are phased out.
By migrating to Cloudpager and leveraging Intune for delivery:
- You preserve your investment in existing App-V packages.
- You gain the scalability and reliability of Intune’s Win32 app engine.
- You reduce administrative overhead and modernize your endpoint strategy.
App-V served enterprises well, but the future of application delivery is faster, more flexible, and built for the cloud. Cloudpager and Intune make that future available today.