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Deploying Appx Applications for all users (available immediately at logon)

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Hi

We are wanting to deploy Minecraft Education Edition to our Student PCs. 

I can setup the Appx file in SCCM for installation via the software center for single users and that does work OK for single users. SCCM seems to handle this well and configures all the detection method etc automatically. 

The Powershell script supplied by Microsoft which is supposed to install for all users will not allow installation via SCCM as the system account cannot install Appx applications. 

Alternatively I can also use SCCM to provision the application for all users using DISM, which then auto-installs the application for each user, however as we clean user profiles the application has to be reinstalled after each logon. This isn't the quickest process as there are other apps that auto-install or seem to at least do some maintenance at logon. 

Is there anyway to deploy an Appx file using SCCM to make it available to all users on a machine (including brand new profiles) immediately after logon - for example using the default user profile? 

At the moment it seems we cannot offer this application in any sort of reliable fashion - this seems crazy as we have SCCM and Minecraft is a Microsoft application! 

Frustratingly there are MSI installers available for other Minecraft applications such as Code Connection and Classroom Mode, but not for the Education Edition. 

I have read that it can be managed by Microsoft Store for Business, however we are not in a position to implement that any time soon due to internal delays getting moving with Office365.

Has anyone had any success pre-installing appx applications for all users - not just pre-provisioning? Or I am trying to achieve the impossible?

Many thanks for any help and suggestions.


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