Deploy MyQ Desktop Client (10.0) with Intune

MyQ Desktop Client is a powerful tool that brings convenience to printing and leverages failover strategies and print accounting. It is a good idea to set up automatic deployment of the Desktop Client on enabled Windows computers and have it installed during the initial configuration when a new device joins your Azure AD-managed environment. This is one of the essentials of a great MDM strategy.

This manual is valid for MyQ Desktop Client 10.0.

MyQ Desktop Client 10.2 offers a simplified process of Intune deployment with automatic settings configuration based on dedicated configuration profiles.

By providing immediate access to the Desktop Client, users are spared the inconvenience of having to install it individually.

Moreover, this ensures that users are not left without alternative print options in situations where the client was not installed, and the print server experiences no downtime.

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a system that enables organizations to control and manage devices, such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and computers, by remotely configuring settings, enforcing security policies, and distributing applications, ensuring centralized control and protection of corporate data.

Deployment Overview

Before you start, we recommend going through the Microsoft Intune Overview to have a better understanding of Intune’s capabilities. After that, take a look at the Windows deployment guide that focuses specifically on the management of Windows desktops and laptops in general.

As a next step, get familiar with Win32 app management in Microsoft Intune which you will use to add the Desktop Client to Intune to be distributed on your managed devices.

Listed below are the basic steps to deploy the Desktop Client over Intune:

1️⃣ Configure your Intune

Enable management for your users and devices and prepare the prerequisites for running MDC.

2️⃣ Prepare the deployment package

Create a .intunewim file with the MyQ Desktop Client installer which will be uploaded to Intune.

3️⃣ Add the app in Intune

Upload the deployment package file, configure assignments, app settings, and add the MDC configuration for silent installation.

Intune Configuration

Follow the Microsoft manuals to configure your Intune users, groups, devices, policies, and assignments in the Microsoft Intune admin center.

MyQ Desktop Client Manual

We recommend going through the Desktop Client manuals to learn more on the requirements and features of MDC before you start deployment.

Prerequisites for MDC

Certificates installed on the client computers (if certificate validation will be enforced in the Desktop Client).
Dependencies (prerequisite software needed to run the MyQ Desktop Client) should be either already installed on the client computers or prepared in Intune to be deployed together with MDC.

MyQ Desktop Client dependencies

Before deploying the Desktop Client, read the MDC’s requirements for the client workstation as defined in the Desktop Client manual – Basic Information.

If the computers where MDC will be installed do not have the required software (namely Microsoft .NET Framework) already installed, you should first:

Either deploy the MDC prerequisite software on the clients prior to MDC deployment, or
Prepare and upload .NET Framework to Intune, so that you can later select it as a dependency that will be installed before the Desktop Client itself.

Preparing the .intunewim Deployment Package

Intune uses the .intunewim file to pack the installer and the configuration necessary to install the required apps on the client workstations. You can use Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool to create the package.

Follow the guide from Microsoft Prepare Win32 app content for upload.

Prerequisites

Downloaded Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool, link in the manual mentioned above.
Downloaded MyQ Desktop Client’s installer, extracted in its own folder.

Creating the Package

Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool is a command line app in which you will be specifying the location of your downloaded Desktop Client’s installer. Run the tool and follow the instructions.

Select the folder where the MDC .msi installer is located.
Specify the actual installer .msi file.
Define the folder where the tool will output a ready-to-use .intunewim file.

Once the tool finishes preparing the package, you should be able to find it in the defined target folder.

Adding the Desktop Client App in Intune

You can now upload your created installation package in Intune and start deployment. You can do this in the Microsoft Intune admin center, navigate to the Apps page, and select All apps.

Find the complete instructions on how to upload the .intunewim file in Microsoft's manual: Add and assign an app.

Desktop Client Configuration and Features

During the process of creating the app in Intune, in the Program step, you will be able to configure the Install command – this is where you can define the Desktop Client’s configuration and select MDC features to be enabled.

Available commands are listed in the Desktop Client’s manual for Silent installation.

You can also specify only the desired commands; the rest will be set to the client’s defaults. You can check what the defaults are by running the .msi installation file and going through the installer first.

Example:

The command below will install the Desktop Client, set it to connect to the server myServerHostname.example:8090, set the login method to User credentials, and enable the login methods Username+Password and PIN.

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