Description of the new feature / enhancement
As a domain administrator I would like to be able to configure a group policy which triggers winget to install certain packages. An admin may also specify for each package entry, from which source the package may be installed to ensure.
Compared to already existing GPO software installation process, this would allow an administrator to ensure that new computers will have a current version of the package without requiring the administrator to upgrade the version hold on the DC manually. Also it could make it more transparent (in theory at least) to users & admins which packages were installed due to GPO. And those packages may be auto updated later on as well.
Compared with using a script GPO calling "winget" this allows admins to ensure, that e.g. Firefox is guaranteed to be installed from the official sources / MS Store / own sources the admin provides.
Proposed technical implementation details
If feasible, Windows / winget could remember, which packages were triggered by a GPO install and may then be able to uninstall them again if no GPO is referencing these packages anymore (and also no other dependency requires them to be installed).
Description of the new feature / enhancement
As a domain administrator I would like to be able to configure a group policy which triggers winget to install certain packages. An admin may also specify for each package entry, from which source the package may be installed to ensure.
Compared to already existing GPO software installation process, this would allow an administrator to ensure that new computers will have a current version of the package without requiring the administrator to upgrade the version hold on the DC manually. Also it could make it more transparent (in theory at least) to users & admins which packages were installed due to GPO. And those packages may be auto updated later on as well.
Compared with using a script GPO calling "winget" this allows admins to ensure, that e.g. Firefox is guaranteed to be installed from the official sources / MS Store / own sources the admin provides.
Proposed technical implementation details
If feasible, Windows / winget could remember, which packages were triggered by a GPO install and may then be able to uninstall them again if no GPO is referencing these packages anymore (and also no other dependency requires them to be installed).