If you haven’t already, please take a look at the part 1 of a series of articles on how to streamline you Intune applications. It will provide you with some basic understanding on how to build a local application source file repository and how to use Powershell AppDeploy Toolkit to create standardized Intune win32 application packages.
Whenever I create an Intune application I pride myself on providing a so called logo file. This logo file is primarily used to help identify the application in Company Portal. If you are not familar with Company Portal, it’s basically used to provide the user with a way to install applications on their Windows device, without being a local administrator. In the Microsoft Intune admin center you can assigned which applications are available in Company Portal.
Let’s have a look at how you can find the logo file for an application and how to make an applications available in Company Portal.
How to find and assign the logo file
Google search
There are usually a couple of ways to get a logo file for an application. You can do a basic search on Google and hope to find a logo file:
A Google search for a logo file may provide you with different potential logo files, but the quality and resolution of these logo files can vary quite a bit and in some cases you might not find a suitable logo file.
Aaron Parkers Github Repo
Another option is Aaron Parkers Icons Github repo. Aaron Parker has done a great job of collecting logo files for a lot of commonly used applications, Notepad++ included:
This Github repo is my first choice when looking for logo files for applications.
Iconviewer utility
My second choice is using a small utility called IconViewer from a company called Bot productions. Logo files for uncommon applications might not be available in Aaron Parkers Github repo. With the IconViewer utility it’s possible to extract logo files from EXE or DLL files thus obtaining one or more logo files for the application.
To get started with Iconviewer, download the latest version from the Bot Productions website:
Kick off the setup process and select Express Install:
Agree to the license terms and click next:
Setup should now be complete:
To get the logo file from Notepad++ navigate to the notepad++.exe file in the C:\Program Files\Notepad++ folder
Right click the notepad++.exe file and click properties, you should now have a small “Icons” tab available:
In the “Device images:” box scroll a bit and select the “256×256, 32bit (PNG)” value:
This is the best-looking logo file. Some apps might not have the 256×256, 32bit logo file, in that case you can either go and have a look at Aaron Parkers Icons repository or do a Google search for a logo file.
To save the logo file click the save icon aka the floppy disk icon, provide a name for the logo file and remember to select the PNG file type:
How to assign a logo file to an applications in Intune
It’s time to update the Notepad++ app in Intune with our acquired logo file.
Go to the Apps node in the Intune admin center:
Search for Notepad++:
Select the Notepad++ app and click Properties and then Edit:
Click change image:
Select your logo file and click OK:
The Notepap++ app should now have a logo assigned:
How to make an application available via Company Portal
The last thing needed is to make Notepad++ available in Company Portal. Go back to the properties of Notepad++ and scroll down to the bottom where it says Assignments and click Edit:
In this example the All Devices group has been assigned, which means all devices enrolled in Intune have access to Notepad++.
If you want only specific devices or users to have access, click add group and either search for or select a group that contains the specific devices or users.
All devices or users in the App-Install-Notepad++ group will now have access to Notepad++ in Company Portal
Hopefully your users will now appreciate the great looking logos on the available apps in Company Portal.
This concludes the article. Feel free to reach out to me on X or on LinkedIn if you have any comments or questions.