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Copper Contributor

Dec 14, 2021

The ms-appinstaller protocol has been disabled.

I just found out that users can no longer install my MSIX from my website. This is a WPF application packaged with "Windows Application Packaging Project" (wapproj). When users click the "Get the app...

Aditi_Narvekar

Dec 15, 2021

bvenhaus Thank you for your question. We removed the ms-appinstaller custom scheme due to a security vulnerability. We do intend to bring this back, and are working on it. For now, you can update the link on your website by removing 'ms-appinstaller:?source='

<html>
    <body>
        <h1> MyApp Web Page </h1>
        <a href="http://mywebservice.azureedge.net/HubApp.msix"> Install app package </a>
        <a href="http://mywebservice.azureedge.net/HubAppBundle.msixbundle"> Install app bundle  </a>
        <a href="http://mywebservice.azureedge.net/HubAppSet.appinstaller"> Install related set </a>
    </body>
</html>

ernie

Copper Contributor

Dec 21, 2021

Aditi_Narvekar Could you provide us any additional information on this? This has serious implications on how we distribute certain apps.

Can you at least confirm at least if it will eventually be restored? I understand if you cannot provide a timeline yet but we would like to know so we can plan accordingly. I would hate to go through the trouble of implementing an alternative (albeit less effective) approach only to have it restored shortly afterwards.

Thanks.

Ernie

JayBeavers

Brass Contributor

Dec 21, 2021

I've now opened a business support ticket on this from my company's support contract and set it to Sev-A, Critical Impact. I'll post here if I get traction.

Aditi_Narvekar
Microsoft
Dec 21, 2021
Hi all,
To confirm, yes, we do plan on correcting this. I know the team is working on bringing it back, but don't have a date for this yet.
- 27k1isms
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 21, 2022
  Aditi_Narvekar
  
  Can you please explain what is going on with this?
  
  My customer in Switzerland does not have this issue and can update the app in the normal manner.
  
  Perhaps you can please reinstate the protocol and allow all our app users to update our app, even if for a limited time.
  
  This totally unacceptable and can you please confirm this has been escalated from yourself to others who can sort out this issue.
- ernie
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 14, 2022
  Hi Aditi_Narvekar.
  Any update on a timeline for this? Anywhere we can track progress?
  
  Thanks.
  Ernie
  - Dian Hartono
    Microsoft
    Jan 14, 2022
    Hi all, we are actively working to enable the feature as soon as we can. We do not have a timeline yet that we can share externally for when the feature will be enabled again. We'll update this thread and our tech community of the solution soon.
- Grufus
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 23, 2021
  Thanks for the update Aditi! We have had a critical issue open with Microsoft premiere support for over a week, and unfortunatly have gotten nowhere except links to articles about workarounds, so at least your responding here. At this point we are having to figure out ways around this issue and abandon this funtionality (probably for good). It is a shame though as it worked very well for quite a while.
  - 27k1isms
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 24, 2021
    If you have a workaround which is feasible it would be good to know. I doubt a good solution exists.

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