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Company Portal Theme

August 18, 2024

The default theme for Company Portal is fine, but it always looks better when you customize it to match your origination’s theme.

In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to set a theme for Company Portal.

The Process

Login to Microsoft Intune admin center
Click on Tenant administration

Under the End user experiences section, click on Customization.

Click on Edit beside settings.

Enter your Organization name.
Select a Theme color.

The default color for Company Portal is blue.

The default Company Portal Header and color.

Select what you would like to see in the header.

I will be selecting Organization logo only as my logo has the organization name in it already.

Select a logo for the color-themed background and the white background.

I will be using the same logo for each of them.

Company Portal themed with a logo-only header.

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Intune Deploy Company Portal for Windows

The Company Portal application is a wonderful tool for Microsoft Intune. If you come from the world of ConfigMgr (Microsoft Configuration Manager aka SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager)), it is the Intune version of Software Center.

Company Portal allows users to install programs you publish on the Company Portal. My favorite part is that the users don’t need local admin to install the applications you make available to them.

You can also make Company Portal do more than just install applications for users on demand. For example, it can allow users to factory reset their devices or retrieve their own BitLocker keys.

There are three main ways to deploy the Company Portal on Windows.

Online Company Portal as System-based
Online Company Portal as User-based
Offline Company Portal

The original method for deploying Company Portal was to use the Microsoft Store for Business. At the time two options existed: the Offline Company Portal and the Online Company Portal. The main difference between the two was that the Offline Company Portal could use device-based licensing and could be installed system-based, while the Online Company Portal was user-based.

With the deprecation of the Microsoft Store for Business, the current Microsoft Store was updated with a new method for deploying the Online Company Portal. This method includes system and user based deployments, allowing us to achieve the same results as the old Microsoft Store for Business.

System vs User

A system-based Company Portal deployment makes the most sense when the organization fully owns the device or when items like Windows Autopilot are used.

A user-based Company Portal deployment makes sense when the device is a BYOD setup.

The difference between the two is that the system-based deployment of Company Portal only needs to be done once per system, which can help speed up login times. The user-based deployment needs to install Company Portal for each user that uses the system, which can result in users waiting for Company Portal to install, which can be a pain for shared devices like meeting rooms.

Offline Company Portal

The need for the Offline Company Portal is rare but can still be useful in some situations. Typically the Offline Company Portal is used in situations where the Microsoft Store is disabled or can not be used for various reasons.

What sets the Offline Company Portal apart from the Online Company Portal is that it does not use the Microsoft Store to install itself. Instead, it uses the Microsoft Intune Management Extension. The Offline Company Portal will require manual updates when new versions are released.

In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to deploy the Company Portal for Windows using Microsoft Intune.

The Process

Log in to the Microsoft Intune admin center.
Click on Apps.

Click on All Apps.

Click on Add.

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