After doing some reading and research on Windows 8 Store app deployment from sources likehttp://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39685 and this forum and I am getting pretty depressed. Here is one part of my scenario which is pretty simple I think.
Lab of 20 Dell 3011 AIO Touchscreens that were depoyed with Win8Ent via MDT2012U1. For simplicity I will talk about a subset of my problem. I have 3 classes of Kindergartners who use the lab. The students aren't capable of really logging in themselves so the teacher logs them all in to a shared account for each class since all they do is web / app stuff. I don't want to create 60 accounts for this young of kids since they can't handle the process anyway.
Here is my understanding of what I would have to do if I wanted to install Fresh Paint (a great free app) for all the students to use.
1. Create a minimum of 4 Microsoft accounts due to device limits of store app install.
2. Assign / attach those Microsoft accounts to specific lab machines (while logged in as each shared student account).
3. Login to each of my 20 lab machines as each of the 3 share accounts (which can't have roaming profile since Windows <-> Microsoft account association now needs to be unique). This would be a minimum of 60 individual logins for this one
app and one grade.
4. Install the app on a per user / per device basis.
5. Potentially repeat process any time an update is released since the students can't handle it themselves.
I think this is the majority of the process, am I leaving any important steps or details out? This sounds like it would be HOURS of work to install ONE app for ONE grade. I could potentially need 5-10 unique apps per grade.
This just isn't feasible on any type of scale. Even this limited amount of devices / users is overkill when dealing with users who are to young to maintain their own devices or exist in lab environment. In reading the doc refrenced above it doesn't seem like there is a solution for this offered by MDT, SCCM or Intune? Please tell me I am missing the magic deploy button? Also I don't even want to begin to think about apps that aren't free and managing that.
Thanks for any helpful info.
Brian Hoyt