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Copper Contributor

Oct 12, 2020

Deployment by Appinstaller cause URI handling popup without the app link

I have a win32 app wrapped into MSIX by MSIX packaging tool for using the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/web-to-app-linking feature. After installing the app by .appinsta...

Microsoft

Nov 18, 2020

vshmelev

This should work correctly with the Windows 10 October 2020 update. On previous builds there was an issue with AppUriHandler that caused it not to work when installing with an App Installer file, exactly as you described.

jvintzel

Former Employee

Feb 06, 2021

vshmelev You may also want to verify the Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller app is installed. You can do this by running the following command from PowerShell

Get-AppPackage Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller

We have seen power users bulk purge this when removing preinstalled apps. It newer versions of Windows this will be non-removable to prevent accidental uninstall.

John Vintzel (@jvintzel)
PM Lead, MSIX