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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...
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)
Hi Tanaka_Jimha, is there any news?
In looking at this thread, while it might be nice if the AppInstaller file functionality included an auth feature, I'm not sure we need it.
Typically in any kind of packaged deployments, the package is user agnostic and the tooling provides authentication. The AppInstaller file is used as something sent to be installed, so auth might not be needed here. Instead, I think that authentication should be implemented by the "hoster" on the actual MSIX file. So if UNC file share that means ACLs, and for Http/S some sort of logon permissions. The latter might be harder to do, but I'm assuming that this is an enterprise situation that would be using UNC.
Typically in any kind of packaged deployments, the package is user agnostic and the tooling provides authentication. The AppInstaller file is used as something sent to be installed, so auth might not be needed here. Instead, I think that authentication should be implemented by the "hoster" on the actual MSIX file. So if UNC file share that means ACLs, and for Http/S some sort of logon permissions. The latter might be harder to do, but I'm assuming that this is an enterprise situation that would be using UNC.
Hi TIMOTHY_MANGAN, Excuse me but I don't understand you.
Referring to the following link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/app-installer/web-install-azure
The MSIX installer does not work when Azure AD authentication is enabled.- OK. I don't test appinstaller in a scenario where AAD auth is required, but I've certainly done AAD auth based MSIX installs so I know that much works. But, assuming it can work, you likely would have the files in Azure Files, and user based access should be able to be placed there. I'd also guess some web portal work could be done to provide different files for different users from the same request, if you did that you could have one web link that points to different appinstaller files (and therefore different MSIX versions) on a per-user basis..