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MSIX automatic updates and authentication
Hey Martin82
The AppInsatller file currently doesn't support user authentication. This is a feature in our backlog and we hope to get to it soon.
Tanaka (MSFT)
Hey Martin82
The AppInsatller file currently doesn't support user authentication. This is a feature in our backlog and we hope to get to it soon.
Tanaka (MSFT)
HiTanaka_Jimha ,
thx for your reply back in January. I've checked a few sources about msix development, but couldn't find anything about this. Do you have an update or can you point me at some alternatives how to implement customer specific versions with automatic updates?
thx and br,
Martin
Hi Martin82,
Can you please elaborate on "customer specific versions". Do you mean being able to distribute certain versions of your package depending on who is trying to install the app?
Thanks,
Tanaka
HiTanaka_Jimha ,
yes, thats exactly what we want to achieve. We produce about 4-6 Versions of our desktop products per year, but there are dependencies on external services and databases, so we can't roll out the update for everyone at the same time. (And some updates need our consulting colleagues, and so we have to enable the update per customer after the preparation is done).
During writing this reply, I found a documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/non-store-developer-updates for manual updates with the package manager. I'm not sure when the capabilities to use http-Uris for AddPackageAsync where added - the documentation still stays only local file shares are supported - but it seems we can use this, instead of the authentication.
I'll try it out sometime in the future, but it looks like we don't need the authentication anymore.
Thanks,
Martin