Here in Norway more and more schools are making use of Office 365, Azure AD and Intune for client management, and this will accelerate in the near future, and with the current licensing regime in schools, I'm assuming schools in other countries will do the same if not already.

As an IKT technician responsible for clients and application deployment I can't avoid noticing how easy application management with MS Store Apps are compared to Win32, including in store licensing. Also, the old ways of deploying GPO's are gone, and packaging custom *.intunewin files based on custom MSI/MST files for each and every school is not very effective.

I do realize people and devs being somewhat negative towards the MS Store for reasons unknown. But, it does work very well, and having SMART Notebook there would be a huge improvement. Deploy once, and every update on both server and client side is managed automatically.

Also, keep in mind that there are going to be a new generation of affordable Windows 10 for ARM devices targeting schools in the near future. These clients will be able to emulate the Win32 installation, but at a performance cost. Also, adding on this, Windows Lite OS will perhaps be a Store only device.

SMART should consider porting to the MS Store. Also, this would enable them to devide the suite into several standalone installations under one licence for everyone to grab when required by the user.

At the very least, make some updated documentation on how to best deploy and manage with Intune. I see the admin documentation refers to GPO's. In all practice, GPO's are old tech, MS does not develop GPO's further, and we're not deploying any clients to local AD any more so we would not be able to target clients with GPO's in any case.