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Win32ContentPrepToolGUI
Win32ContentPrepToolGUI
is an open source wrapper for the Win32 Content Prep Tool by Microsoft. I got tired of having to manually type in file paths without autocompletion, so now we can use a nice GUI to select file paths.
You must download the IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
executable from the official Microsoft repo before running this application. This is simply a wrapper and requires the executable to pack your apps to .intunewin
format.
Written in Visual Basic .NET, Win32ContentPrepToolGUI
is a Windows Forms Application. This simplifies the process of selecting parameters for the prep tool.
How to use
Go to the Releases tab and download the latest version of WIn32ContentPrepToolGUI.exe
(Microsoft Defender or Smart Screen will flag this app, this is expected. Just tell Smart Screen or Defender to keep the app).
Download the official Win32 Content Prep Tool (IntuneWinAppUtil.exe) from Microsoft's official repo.
Steps here are written in order of top to bottom (from the top of the GUI to the bottom)
- Press the
Select File
button and select theIntuneWinAppUtil.exe
. - Press the
Select File
button and select the setup file (This is usually asetup.msi
orsetup.exe
). - Press the
Select Folder
button and select the setup folder (All files in this folder will be packaged into the.intunewin
format. - Press the
Select Folder
button and select the output folder (This is where the.intunewin
will be saved). - The
Select catalog folder
TextBox and its respectiveSelect Folder
Button will be disabled until you specifyyes
orno
using theCatalogFolder
CheckBox. If the CheckBox is Checked (True) then the TextBox and Button will be enabled and you must choose a catalog foler to continue. - (OPTIONAL) - Choose whether or not you want to use Quiet Mode when generating your
.intunewin
file. By default, this is disabled. - Press the
Generate
button - Celebrate, because you can now upload your
.intunewin
file to Intune, and you didn't have to type in those long file paths to do it.
IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
Autofill To tell this app where IntuneWinAppUtil.exe is stored, you can use the registry editor. Go to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WIN32_CONTENT_PREP_TOOL_GUI_CONFIG
.
Inside that key is a value called IntuneWinAppUtil_Location
. The default value is set to C:\IWAU\IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
. Change this to whatever value you want. If the app finds the util tool at that location, it will autofill the value every time you run the GUI.
Here are some valid example values for IntuneWinAppUtil_Location
:
C:\Intune Utils\Microsoft\IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
C:\Users\username\Documents\IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
C:\Tools\Intune Tools\Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool\IntuneWinAppUtil.exe