Deploying Nitro PDF Pro for Windows via InTune

This article discusses deploying Nitro PDF Pro for Windows via InTune.

Steps to deploy Nitro using InTune:

A simple factory-defaults installation can be done with InTune if the Nitro PDF Pro MSI already resides on the target computer with the following steps:

Provide the directory where the Nitro PDF Pro MSI resides
Type the following command into InTune:
- If using NLS (online account log-in activation): msiexec /I nitro_pro13_x64.msi
- If using Enterprise (.lic license file) activation: msiexec /I nitro_pro13_x64.msi NPSERIAL=[Enter Licence Serial number here and remove square brackets]
  - Note: the serial number entered above will be the contents of the license file, which will be a 400+ character string.

Steps to deploy Nitro PDF Pro with an MST file using InTune:

To deploy an .MSI of Nitro PDF Pro along with a Transformation file (.MST), we will need to use a tool developed by Microsoft to prepare the package for deployment.

Pre-requisites:

Nitro Pro .msi file and Deployment Utility
Win32 Content Prep Tool: GitHub - microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-Tool: A tool to wrap Win32 App and then it can be uploaded to Intune
License method (.lic license file, serial number, or online account-based activation)

Preparing the package:

Extract all the contents of the Win32 Content Prep Tool file:
Create a new folder, copy and paste the IntuneWinAppUtil.exe inside the folder
With the help of the Nitro PDF Pro deployment utility, generate a .mst file.
Add both the .MSI and .MST file inside the same folder as the IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
Right click inside the folder and select New > Text Document
Open the text document and paste the following command (this example is for V13, adjust the installation file as necessary):
msiexec /i %~dp0nitro_pro13_x64.msi TRANSFORMS=?%~dp0nitro_pro13_x64.mst" /qb
Save the text document as Install.cmd (make sure that the format changes from txt to cmd):

Inside the same folder, please copy the .msi file, .mst, IntuneWinAppUtil.exe and install.cmd
On the folder path, type CMD to open a CMD window inside that folder
Type IntuneWinAppUtil.exe and add the following information:

Source folder: The folder where all the package files are located. The setup file: the .msi installation file.
Output folder: The folder where the .intunewin wrapper will be created (same as Source Folder):

Configure the Win32 app within Azure Portal:

1 Open Azure Portal and navigate to Intune > Client Apps > Apps which will open Client -> Apps blade.

2 Click Add to open the Add App blade on the Client Apps blade.

3 On theAdd appblade, selectWindows app (Win32) previewto show the configuration options and selectApp package fileto open theApp package fileblade.

4 On the App Package file, select the nitro_pro13_x64.intunewin and click OK.

5 Select App information and provide the application name (Nitro PDF Pro 13), Description (This app installs Nitro PDF Pro 13 activated) Publisher (Nitro Inc.)

6 Back on the Add App blade, select Program, and change the install command to install.cmd

7 Back on the Add App blade, select Requirements, and add the oldest possible build of Windows as the requirements, to avoid any deployment issues.

8 Back on the Add App blade, select Detection Rule to open the Detection Rule blade and select Manually configure detection rules and click Add.

9 Back on the Add App blade, there will be Return Codes this will be pre-populated, and we will run with the default values.

10 Lastly, we need to set the Select groups where one want to assign this app from Add Group blade. There are 3 (three) Assignment types, Select one assignment type. Please deploy MSI applications to some group of devices or users asREQUIRED or Available app.