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Deploy Alice 3 to Microsoft Intune

Alice Team, Carnegie Mellon UniversityWindowsversion 3.9.1.0, 9 April 2026

Alice 3 is in the PatchBee catalog as a Windows app from Alice Team, Carnegie Mellon University, synced from the Windows Package Manager community repository (winget). Pick it in the App Library and PatchBee writes the deployment plan below, builds the package, publishes it to your Intune tenant and assigns it to the Entra groups you choose. New versions then follow through your update rings.

The plan PatchBee writes

Alice 3 as an Intune app

The standard form for a EXE installer (x64, per machine). The real plan is generated from the installer when you package, and shown in full before anything is published; every field can be changed.

Intune app type
Windows app (Win32), .intunewin
Install
"Alice3.exe" -q -Dinstall4j.suppressUnattendedReboot=true
Uninstall
Uninstall string of 8894-1892-1685-3469
Detection
Registry: the app's uninstall key. Uninstall key 8894-1892-1685-3469, DisplayVersion 3.9.1.0 or newer.
Requirements
x64 · per machine

Installers in version 3.9.1.0

ArchitectureTypeScopeHash
x64Zip archivescope decided at plan timeSHA-256 published
x64EXE installerper machineSHA-256 published

PatchBee downloads the installer from the publisher's own URL and verifies its SHA-256 against the catalog before packaging. "None published" means the source carries no hash for this download, so that check has nothing to compare against; packaging still works.

Silent install switches

Recorded for Alice 3 in its winget manifest. PatchBee uses them as the installer's unattended switches, so the package installs without a click.

Silent
-q -Dinstall4j.suppressUnattendedReboot=true
Silent with progress
-q -splash "" -Dinstall4j.suppressUnattendedReboot=true
Install location
-dir "<INSTALLPATH>"
Log
-Dinstall4j.log="<LOGPATH>"

About Alice 3

Alice is an innovative block-based programming environment that makes it easy to create animations, build interactive narratives, or program simple games in 3D. Unlike many of the puzzle-based coding applications Alice motivates learning through creative exploration. Alice is designed to teach logical and computational thinking skills, fundamental principles of programming and to be a first exposure to object-oriented programming. The Alice Project provides supplemental tools and materials for teaching using Alice across a spectrum of ages and subject matter with proven benefits in engaging and retaining diverse and under served groups in computer science education.

Alice 3 is the latest IDE (integrated development environment) for the Alice programming language. It has all of the features that have make Alice an exciting and creative first programming experience with an added emphasis on object-oriented concepts. Alice 3 has a new rich gallery of models that includes everything you need to spark your creativity including a full The Sims™ character builder. The new gallery is built upon a class joint structure allowing you to share animations between different characters of the same type. In addition, it has features to assist in a full transition to the Java programming language including viewing the generated Java code side-by-side and even exporting your world into NetBeans to be able to extend the functionality by coding Alice worlds directly in Java.

Publisher
Alice Team, Carnegie Mellon University
License
Freeware
Source
winget · CMU.Alice.3
Versions in catalog
6
educationideprogramming

How this becomes an app in your tenant

Sign in with your Microsoft work account and connect your Intune tenant once. Find Alice 3 in the App Library, open its plan (the commands, detection rule and requirements above, editable) and publish: PatchBee downloads and verifies the installer, builds the package, creates the Intune app and assigns your groups. When Alice Team, Carnegie Mellon University ships a new version, PatchBee detects it and rolls it out through your rings, with supersedence and rollback.

Read the step-by-step guide

More Windows apps

Catalog data as of 11 October 2026, from the Windows Package Manager community repository (winget). The product re-reads the source every night and plans against the live catalog, so the version here may already be one behind. Nothing is published to a tenant without an administrator approving the plan.