DCUK6 Posted July 18, 2017 Posted July 18, 2017 Trying to get Minecraft Education for the ICT room, my question is, how on earth do you install for shared computers. Has anyone installed this? Where do you get the install, how do you deploy? Where do you create students? Theres a free trial for 10 students, how do you get this? Any ideas? It looks like its another case of companies not understanding how schools work.
dhicks Posted July 18, 2017 Posted July 18, 2017 Where do you get the install, how do you deploy? Where do you create students? Users: you need to create users in Office 365. We did this by syncing Active Directory with Office 365 - you set the tool on a domain controller. It's a bit of work, but the process is simple enough and once it's done it's done and you'll have all your pupils (and staff, if you want) synced with Office 365. For the client itself, we just manually installed on the (Mac) workstations we wanted it on. 1
DCUK6 Posted July 18, 2017 Author Posted July 18, 2017 Cheers, Had a reply back from Microsoft as well and was pretty helpful, i still dont like the idea of another password for our younger students to remember, some only just manage the pc one. Why cant they just make a internal system connected to DC. Have created account in office365 for them, fairly painless now actually compared to when i last tried doing this. Bulk add and also bulk hide from global address book now included in the online exchange. From Microsoft "All students must have an Office 365 education account. This does not mean that all students have to be able to utilize Exchange, SharePoint, etc.. Office 365 can also be restricted by admins to allow only what you want your students to have access to. Office 365 doesn’t have to be an all or nothing service, you can pick and choose what you want to give to your students. Whether that is just an account (that looks like an email address), Office Online, and a Minecraft license, you can do that."
mavhc Posted July 18, 2017 Posted July 18, 2017 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/distribute-apps-to-your-employees-windows-store-for-business https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/education/windows/school-get-minecraft Basically it's even worse than the terrible java MinecraftEdu version, deployment wise (I just run that from the network share)
dhicks Posted July 18, 2017 Posted July 18, 2017 i still dont like the idea of another password for our younger students to remember The AD / Office 365 sync process should sync passwords, users should be able to log in to Minecraft with the same password as their usual Windows login (or you can probably sort out single sign-on).
ModeratelyGruntled Posted December 15, 2017 Posted December 15, 2017 Hi there How did you deploy Minecraft: Education Edition after? I'm looking to do offline installations but the documentation is a bit vague generally around deploying store apps - Are people injecting apps into build images using DISM (and can you do this on a live OS?)? I'd like to use it with existing workstations which aren't enrolled in Azure AD or any MDM. Surely it can be done in powershell?
sted Posted December 15, 2017 Posted December 15, 2017 when you download it theres a powershell script to install. personally as all the machines i need to install it on are in one room i gave up trying to automate it (it dosent seem to like being run from a unc location) iirc i tried automating it and it was just taking more time getting it to work than i felt it was going to save me
ModeratelyGruntled Posted December 15, 2017 Posted December 15, 2017 I can't see any powershell scripts from the download page - link?
sted Posted December 15, 2017 Posted December 15, 2017 I can't see any powershell scripts from the download page - link? its in the zip file you download along with minecraft itself
DavR Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 (edited) Basically it's even worse than the terrible java MinecraftEdu version, deployment wise (I just run that from the network share) You're not wrong there! I stuck the Java version into an MSI, but yeah, at least that was just a pile of files. If anyone's interested, I've just deployed the Minecraft Education Edition app to all my Windows devices, using a PowerShell script. No Windows Store etc required, just plain files - notes on this thread. You'll still need O365 accounts for student logins, but the deployment at least is simple (even if the recommended methodology is terrible). Edited January 11, 2019 by DavR
mavhc Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 For Java minecraft I put java and minecraft on a writable share with a bat file: @echo off cd /d P:\Write\minecraftedu\ start \\school.local\share$\Java\jre1.8.0_51\bin\javaw.exe -jar Launcher.jar No need to install anything then
EddyAllen Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 Download the .appx file from https://store.rg-adguard.net/ Install manually or with SCCM from the client PC's. If you are using LTSB/LTSC you will need to run the script that enables the windows store components.
DavR Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 Are the .appx files from that link any different to the ones at https://education.minecraft.net/get-started/download/? Those ones didn't install cleanly through SCCM for me, unless you do it per user :/
free780 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 You'd have to do a Powershell script that provisions the app for all users. But given how the store works I think your asking for trouble hacking about with Store apps. It could get messy unprovisioning and uninstalling (per user) for all users. It would be better to let the store handle the updates.
DavR Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 We don't use / allow the Store on our network, so I've provisioned ours quite happily with this PowerShell script. Installs for all users with no further intervention required. Could be interesting if M$ update the app, but we block Store updates, so it would be a managed update if it were necessary. 1
EddyAllen Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 (edited) I literally just imported the Appx into SCCM and hit deploy, seems to install with no issues at all. On further inspection it looks like I just got the file from Microsoft website directly as that comes with the dependencies bundled which SCCM Autodetects.Now I just need Microsoft to get some form of documentation on SSO to MC Edu! Edited January 18, 2019 by EddyAllen
DavR Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 That's interesting @EddyAllen, I wonder what you did that I didn't. Did you deploy the appx to computers, or to users? I deployed to computers, which provisioned the app perfectly, but the blasted thing wouldn't actually open. Gave a file system error. I think when I tried installing it through Software Centre it worked fine, but not silently.
flyinghaggis Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 We don't use / allow the Store on our network, so I've provisioned ours quite happily with this PowerShell script. Installs for all users with no further intervention required. Could be interesting if M$ update the app, but we block Store updates, so it would be a managed update if it were necessary. That's useful to know as we block the store as well.
mavhc Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 If only Microsoft would talk to Microsoft to get Microsoft Store to work with Microsoft SCCM deploying to Microsoft Windows the program Microsoft Minecraft. 1
EddyAllen Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 That's interesting @EddyAllen, I wonder what you did that I didn't. Did you deploy the appx to computers, or to users? I deployed to computers, which provisioned the app perfectly, but the blasted thing wouldn't actually open. Gave a file system error. I think when I tried installing it through Software Centre it worked fine, but not silently. I just deployed this to computers, I am using LTSC2019 though which, I believe, doesn't have the provisioning part of W10 even when you re-add the ability to install modern apps. When I install a program for a computer account it just appears there for all users. The file system error might be a privelidges issue as Modern apps are installed inside a hidden folder "WindowsApps"(I think) inside Program Files and users need write permissions on that folder(again *I think*)
free780 Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 They get installed into %localappdata%\microsoft\packages if provisioned it is in the Windows Apps folder.
DavR Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 I just deployed this to computers, I am using LTSC2019 though which, I believe, doesn't have the provisioning part of W10 even when you re-add the ability to install modern apps. When I install a program for a computer account it just appears there for all users. The file system error might be a privelidges issue as Modern apps are installed inside a hidden folder "WindowsApps"(I think) inside Program Files and users need write permissions on that folder(again *I think*) You mean, how app deployment should work.... chalk up another win for LTSB / C!
free780 Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 OK. Finally managed to push out Store Apps. Invloved SCCM Update to 1810. Hybrid Joined PCs. Configured Intune and then Store for Education linked to SCCM I can provision per device. It seems to kick in once 1 user has had the app installed. Its fairly quick. I can understand those of you with smaller setups struggled. Unless you bin your on prem domain.
DavR Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 Wow, that sounds like a PIA, just to use the correct methodology. Script it is then!
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