Publish Options and Retire
Application Publish Options decides what happens to the application that is already in Intune when a new version of the same product is published. It is found on Settings › Deployment Settings › Intune Deployment and it has two values.
The two options
Overwrite (default)
The same application object is updated: a new content version is uploaded and the fields are refreshed.
Kept
Through the assignments that are already there.
Retire and send a new one
The existing application is deleted from Intune and a new application is created for the new version.
Gone with the application
Only through assignments created for the new application.
Overwrite
The application keeps its identity. Its object ID does not change, its assignments do not change, its place in Company Portal does not change. Easy2Patch uploads the new package as a new content version and updates the bundle identifiers, the version, the icon and the rest of the fields.
Because the assignments survive, devices pick up the new version through the assignment that is already in place. Nothing else has to happen.
Retire and send a new one
The existing application is removed from Intune and the new version is published from scratch as a separate application.
Removing the application removes its assignments. The new application starts with none. It will reach devices only if an assignment is created for it — that is, only if Auto Assignment is on, or the product's own Auto Deploy setting is on, or you press Deploy.
The combination "Retire and send a new one" + Auto Assignment off produces a silent gap: the new version is published, the old application and its assignments disappear, no new assignment is created, and the product quietly stops reaching devices. Nothing fails, so nothing is reported as a failure.
The removal is not filtered by origin. Everything attached to that application goes with it, including assignments you created by hand in the Intune portal for your own groups or schedules. If you maintain assignments of your own on Easy2Patch-published applications, use Overwrite.
When does the retire path actually trigger?
With Retire and send a new one selected, Easy2Patch still does not touch the application on every run. It compares what it published last time with what is in Intune now:
The product has a new version (new package)
Delete the old application, publish the new one.
The application in Intune was modified outside Easy2Patch
Delete and republish, and write a warning to the log.
Nothing changed
Nothing. The run is recorded as already published.
The product was never published to Intune
Publish it as a new application.
Deleting applications from Easy2Patch
When you delete an Easy2Patch-published application from the management screen, the same order is followed: the assignments are removed first, then the application itself.
The screen lists only applications that Easy2Patch published — they are identified by the naming suffix Easy2Patch gives them. Applications you created by hand in the Intune portal are not listed and cannot be removed from here.
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