How to deploy Brother P-touch Editor with Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service that provides mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) capabilities. It allows organizations to manage their devices and applications from a single console. Brother P-touch Editor is a free design program that is widely in use. In this blog post, we will show you How to deploy Brother P-touch Editor with Microsoft Intune.
What are we going to set up?
In this Blog post we will show you, How to deploy Brother P-touch Editor with Microsoft Intune. We will perform the following steps to deploy the Brother P-touch Editor:
- Step 1: Download Brother P-touch Editor application
- Step 2: Prepare application executable
- Step 3: Create Win32 application
- Step 4: Import and deploy with Microsoft Intune
How to deploy Brother P-touch Editor with Microsoft Intune
Step 1: Download Brother P-touch Editor application
The first step is to download the Brother P-touch Editor application from the official website. This is a bit tricky. If you already have the software downloaded you can go ahead to step 2. If not, just follow the steps below:
- Go to https://support.brother.com/g/b/midlink_productcategory.aspx?c=ch&lang=de&content=dl&site=pc&orgc=ch&orglang=de&targetpage=17
- Choose your device from the list. Click through it until you are at the Downloads tab.
- Now scroll down to the Editor Tool. Click on the application to install it. Note you will need to enter a Serial-Number to download the application.
After you have entered your Serial number, the download of the Brother P-touch Editor will start. In your Downloads folder, you should now have the application. If you have it, you can go ahead to step 2.
Step 2: Prepare application executable
After you have downloaded the Brother P-touch application the next step is to create an Intune Win App. But first we will need to do some adjustments to the executable. Because, the .exe file does strangly not have any quiet install parameters. Just follow the steps below:
- Make sure you have some sort of Archiver software installed. For example 7-zip. We need it now.
- Extract the downloaded executable from step 1. With 7-Zip right click on the file, click on 7-Zip and than on Extract Here.
Now you should have two new folders. If you have downloaded a different version of Brother P-touch your folder can have a different name.
- Navigate to Editor54 [Can have a different name EditorXX]
- Navigate to the second folder (not ADE!). Depending on the language it has a different folder name. But usually US / GER.
- In there you should have a MSI file something like Ptedit54.msi. [Can have a different name PteditXX.msi]
Save this file. We are going to use this file to create a Win32 application in the next step.
Step 3: Create Win32 application
After you have downloaded the Brother P-touch application and extracted the PteditXX.msi executable we can now start and create an Intune Win Application. Just follow the steps below:
- Create a new folder DeployBrotherPtouch on C:. Copy the executable from step 2 into this folder. Note that the executable can have a different name.
- Create a new folder Output on C:
Now we are going to create an Intune Win file with the official application. First of all download the official Microsoft Intune Win App Tool.
- Download the official Microsoft Intune Win App Tool
- After installation open the Intune Win App Tool. Important: You need to open the Tool with Administrator right. Otherwise there will be an error.
In the application specify the following things:
- Please specify the source folder: C:\DeployBrotherPtouch
- Please specify the setup file: Ptedit54.msi [Enter the executable file. This can be different]
- Please specify the output folder: C:\Output
- Do you want to specify catalog folder: N
In your Output Folder, there should be a new file Win32 file. We use this in the next step to deploy it with Microsoft Intune. You can now procceed to step 4.
Step 4: Import and deploy with Microsoft Intune
After we have created the intunewin file of the executable, we can now upload the application to Microsoft Intune and deploy it to our environment. Just follow these steps.
- Go to intune.microsoft.com
- Click on Apps
- Click on Windows
- Click on Add
- Chose App type Windows app (win32)
- Click on Select
- Click on Select app package file
- Upload your IntuneWin file which is located in C:\Output
- Click on OK
- Click on Next
- Here you can change the Settings. I leave it as it is. Dont forget to enter a Publisher
- Click on Next
On the Program tab enter the following Commands:
- Install Command: msiexec /i “Ptedit54.msi” /qn [If your executable has a different name change it in this command]
- Uninstall command: This is automatically filled from Microsoft Intune.
- Allow available uninstall: Yes
- Install behavior: System
- Click on Next
On the Requirements tab enter:
- Operating system architecture: 64-bit, 32-bit
- Minimum operating system: Windows 10 1607
- Click on Next
On the Detection rules tab enter the following:
- Rules format: Manually configure detection rules
- Click on Add
- Rule type: MSI
- MSI product code: This should already be filled out.
- MSI product version check: No
- Define your Dependencies if applicable and click on Next
- Define your Supersedence if applicable and click on Next
- On the Assignments tab assign the Policy to a Group or to All User
- Click on Next
- And Review + Create the Policy
Congratulations! You have successfully deployed the application.
Conclusion
You learned How to deploy Brother P-touch Editor with Microsoft Intune. We have first downloaded the official installer and extracted the msi installation file. Next, we created an Intune Win file with the msi executable. Last but not least we have uploaded the application to Intune and configured different settings.
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