You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription. You use Microsoft Intune to manage all devices. You need to prepare a Win32 app named App1.exe for deployment. What should you do first?

An app configuration policy is used to configure specific settings for an app *after* it has been prepared and added to Intune, not as the initial preparation step.

Before a Win32 application (like App1.exe) can be deployed via Microsoft Intune, it must first be packaged into the `.intunewin` format. This process uses the Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool to compress and encrypt the installer and its dependencies into a single file that Intune can distribute.

The Microsoft 365 Apps admin center is used for managing Microsoft 365 Apps suites, not generic Win32 applications like App1.exe.

While Intune uses Azure storage, you do not manually upload the raw .exe file directly to Azure Blob Storage; the `.intunewin` file is uploaded to Intune via the admin center, which then handles its storage.