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Copper Contributor

Oct 16, 2019

MSIX Custom Uninstall Processing

What approaches/workarounds are available to perform custom actions on uninstall with MSIX? For example - to direct the user to a post-uninstall survey, or to collect uninstall events on a per-user ...

jvintzel

Former Employee

Feb 11, 2020

shobz_krish

The app is installed in a container with file and registry virtualization. We also redirect the data to app data. There should not be a need for a custom uninstall.

John.

tmccabe

Copper Contributor

Oct 14, 2020

jvintzel we've got an app, currently in MSI-only, that should ideally perform some cleanup on our remote server (through a JSON API) when uninstalled. How can a call to a remote server be triggered on uninstall if there is no uninstall customization?