PC Deployment Through System Management Software

To deploy Minecraft Education across a large-scale environment, you can use your organization’s preferred system management software. For guidance on your specific system management software, you will need to consult the manufacturer.

The following is information on a few of the most common system management software choices.

Intune for Education

For assistance with Intune, see the following articles.

• What is Microsoft Intune app management?
• Add apps to Microsoft Intune
• Add Microsoft Store apps to Microsoft Intune
• How to manage volume purchased apps from the Microsoft Store for Business with Microsoft Intune
• Distribute offline apps
• How to get support in Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

For assistance with SCCM, see Manage apps from the Microsoft Store for Business and Education with Configuration Manager; or, check out the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager documentation.

Windows Package Manger winget

The winget command line tool enables users to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers. This tool is the client interface to the Windows Package Manager service. Click here to learn more about winget for deploying apps. 

Set Up School PC (SUSPC)

For assistance with SUSPC, see Use the Set up School PCs app. To watch a video deployment with SUSPC, check out the Microsoft Education: Use the Set up School PCs App YouTube video.

Install Minecraft Education via Group Policy using PowerShell script

You can download the PowerShell script here. Inside of the .zip file you'll find both the .exe (desktop) and .appx (Microsoft Store) versions of Minecraft Education. Refer to the included relevant readme files for setup and deployment steps. If you have questions or feedback on this script, please reach out to our support team via our ticket form here.