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Martin82
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Jan 09, 2020
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MSIX automatic updates and authentication

Hello everyone, we recently started using MSIX with the automatic updates and made great progress in a short time. Our business would like change all our products from standalone MSI to MSIX with au...
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    Tanaka_Jimha
    Jan 13, 2020

    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)

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Tanaka_Jimha
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Jan 13, 2020

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)

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JoshKBCCG
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Aug 20, 2020

Tanaka_Jimha 

 

Edit: made this a separate post. 

 

I'm wondering if this backlog item will solve my issue, which is I want to host the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/app-installer/installing-windows10-apps-web in an Azure web app behind Easy Auth so that only users in the linked Active Directory can access the installation download. 

 

Easy Auth works as expected to require login to the web page, but the App Installer experience fails with 'An error occurred while accessing the file from the web. Please try downloading and opening the file locally.' I'm guessing this same issue will impact the automatic update functionality of the UWP app as well.

 

Curious if 'AppInstaller user authentication' would solve this problem, or if it will be an authentication experience after the MSIX package has already been downloaded.

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