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tjmullen2
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Oct 06, 2020

Provisioning support for .appinstaller?

We are in an enterprise environment and would like to use the .appinstaller file to install a UWP app provisioned for all users to keep our in-house app up to date. The reason we need the app provis...
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kerenor
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Sep 05, 2023

Roy_MacLachlan 

Thank you for your reply on this topic - I encountered a similar issue requiring provisioning support for appinstaller, in order to be able to downgrade a provisioned package.

I tried using options 1 & 2 - 

  1. Option 1 - 

    fails installing the lower-version package with Add-AppxProvisionedPackage with a "file already exists" error

  2.  

    Option 2 - 
    fails installing the lower-version package with Add-AppxPackage, with the following error
    "Add-AppxPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80070005, Access is denied."

It is described https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1359804/how-to-downgrade-a-provisioned-package-(with-add-a

So my question is - how can I install a lower version of a provisioned msix package, without uninstalling the existing one, from command line?

Thank you!

 

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Fiza_Azmi
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Sep 14, 2023

kerenor 
To make Option 2 work, try running PowerShell in elevated mode i.e. Run as Administrator before running the command: 

Add-AppxPackage -AppInstaller FileName.appinstaller -Path

-Fiza
PM, MSIX Team

 

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    kerenor
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    Sep 14, 2023

    Fiza_Azmi 

    Thanks
    This was done in elevated mode. It also successfully installed a package of a higher version - just the lower version failed. Meaning (in some pseudo-code for clarity, I hope):

     

     

    Add-AppxPackage -AppInstallerFile version_1.0.0.0.appinstaller # Works fine
$PackageManager.ProvisionPackageForAllUsersAsync($PackageFamilyName) # Works fine​

# Upgrade
Add-AppxPackage -AppInstallerFile version_1.0.5.0.appinstaller # Works fine
$PackageManager.ProvisionPackageForAllUsersAsync($PackageFamilyName) # Works fine​

# Downgrade
Add-AppxPackage -AppInstallerFile version_1.0.3.0.appinstaller # Fails as described

     

    • TIMOTHY_MANGAN's avatar
      TIMOTHY_MANGAN
      MVP
      Sep 15, 2023
      While there is an option to replace a package with a lower version, I don't believe you can do so with a provisioned package (Version 1). But you could use a powershell script to look for any version of the app other than the one you now want, remove it if installed, then provision the version you need.
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        kerenor
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        Sep 16, 2023

        TIMOTHY_MANGAN 

        Thank you for your response.

        I see you've mentioned it's likely not possible with a provisioned package version 1 - not sure what the versioning here means? and whether it's possible to use a different version?

        Thanks

         

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