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Iron Contributor

Dec 14, 2020

MSIX app attach Azure portal integration public preview

MSIX app attach is an application layering solution that allows you to dynamically attach an application (that is an MSIX package) to a user session. Separating the application from the operating sys...

Iron Contributor

Dec 20, 2020

Hi Jantu, I would feel the same way for the MSIX app not to appear and the start menu app to appear we are talking about app registration failing. Initially it seems to work but once our code sees that the app does not stage/register its missing from the feed. Can you pm me your host pool name and I will have an engineer look at this

Jantu123

Brass Contributor

Dec 21, 2020

Stefan Georgiev

Hi Stefan, I sent you PM with host pool information yesterday.

One additional interesting thing what I noticed that when I provisioned yesterday new Session host using default Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 mult-session image to same host pool (validation enabled) just to rule out that something is wrong with my custom image, there was no logs related to MSIX App Attach. I have created custom View containing every entry from RemoteDesktopServices where Event source contains AppAttach.

Results seen from newly created Session host. Nothing related to AppAttach...

Results seen in previously created session host in same host pool

Update from monday:

Noticed that newly provisioned Session host WVD agent is older compared to one earlier provisioned in same validation host pool. 1.0.2743.1300 versus 1.0.2548.6500. Maybe this older WVD agent is missing MSIX App attach features... Any way to Force WVD agent update?

Stefan Georgiev
Iron Contributor
Dec 28, 2020
The reason your agent is old is that the hostpool is either not in the validation environment or hasn't picked up the change. The agent version is controlled by the RD broker so there is no easy way to override it.