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Copper Contributor

Mar 05, 2021

Remote desktop services

One of customers is using remote desktop services with Windows Server 2012 R2. Do they have any chance of deploying our MSIX packaged app? I think they can't do anything because that is equivalen...

jvintzel

Former Employee

Apr 13, 2021

marvin_r

MSIX is only https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/supported-platforms on Windows Server 2019 and later as the fully managed deployment stack for Servers.

MSIX app attach is a newer feature for Windows Virtual Desktop and will be supported for Windows Server 2022.

There is an option to leverage https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/msix-core/msixcore for these down-level OSes. MSIX Core allows the ability deploy an MSIX on earlier OSes, but works more like an MSI.

John Vintzel (https://twitter.com/jvintzel)
PM Lead, MSIX

Jacobegan
Copper Contributor
Feb 28, 2023
jvintzel did you get a solution for your project? I’m trying to figure out how to use MSIX/ app attach on a server 2022 RDS host but not able to find any documentation.
- Aniket_Banerjee
  Former Employee
  Mar 09, 2023
  Jacobegan
  
  Did you try https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/msix-core/msixcore? Also, did you mean Win Server 2012 instead of 2022?
  - Jacobegan
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 09, 2023
    Aniket_Banerjee 2022, I was able to figure it out using scripts to attach, register, etc.