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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...
Am getting the same with one app. I packaged it exactly the same way as I packaged notepadplusplus, but it won't have it - empty error as above. All logs from the WVD session host say it appeared to mount and scan the VHDX but I still end up with the above. No idea why as ofc it's all masked in the portal. Yet, I can Add-AppXPackage from the source MSIX fine. I generated the VHDX using MSIXMGR so what else can I do to diagnose...? 😞
We gave up on MSIX App Attach because frankly, it's worthless right now. We know how to do it and make it work, but wasting time "packaging" stuff only to have it fail in most cases for other programs is a waste of effort. Until a vendor decides to utilize MSIX themselves there's little value. I have no use for attaching VLC and Notepad++ or other rinkydink programs that have little value if any in our production environment. I mean Microsoft doesn't even have their own product installers made into MSIX... Give me an Office Suite in MSIX and I'll be impressed.
- That's why I'd left off trying it for so long - it seemed like it wasn't ready. With it going into the portal, I assumed advances had been made and we had this app that was actually an ideal candidate. It's a shame I can't get any apparent indication why one app fails while another succeeds, when both have supposedly packaged correctly.
- Yeah, I was playing around with MSIX last year for Intune because it sounded awesome (in theory). But nothing packages correctly. I mean if I was a software developer maybe I'd have more luck but it just doesn't work. I get its a preview feature for WVD but we were messing with it back in December and here we are 4 months later and there's been little to no advancement in it. We've just gone to fat imaging with Gold Images and leveraging Nerdio and its all been a very viable solution we hope to use to replace our VDI infrastructure very soon.