How to manage app using Intune

Hello King,

Welcome to the Customer Community. I've had a look into this for you.

Device Administrator is considered a bit of a legacy way of managing Android devices. I would recommend that devices be enrolled as Android Enterprise in the EMM at least with a Android Work Profile at a minimum, in order for devices to have some type of communication with Intune and download any applications made available by your Intune console.

Intune allows the admin to manually upload application packages such as apk. Of which, this application package can be acquired by the admin from the vendor or the given site. In the event that the app needs to be rolled back or patched on the Play Store, but is expected to be delayed due to timezone differences for example, you can resort to manually uploading and managing the apk in the Intune consoles app panel.

As an admin, i'd prefer that the vendor patch or update their application on Play Store. With the Play Store you can get a seamless approach in application management, as you will no longer need to worry about the nuances of deploying and updating the application changes manually, everytime there is a change such as patches and rollbacks to the application. But, uploading the package manually to Intune would be your other option and you'd be able to deploy it to the enrolled devices in this regard.

How does this sound to you? Would this work for you? Feel free to add extra context if this doesn't quite work. 

GMenzies jarmo_akkanen as you use Intune, wondered if there is anything you would add here (or anyone else using Intune) - thank you?

Thank you,

Lizzie