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bvenhaus
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's avatar
    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's avatar
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's avatar
Dian Hartono
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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.
  • ChreesM's avatar
    ChreesM
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 25, 2022
    This is more important than any other software development feature that Microsoft could possibly provide right now. We have no interest in any new Visual Studio updates, frameworks, or UI ideas until you can provide us with the very basic task of updating our deployed software. The lack of action on Microsoft's part indicates that they do not understand the severity of this problem.
  • hrb-2's avatar
    hrb-2
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 17, 2022
    @Dian Could I recommend starting a new thread on this topic led/initiated by you. The fact that there is progress being made is getting lost because it falls after 3 pages of frustration posts in this item.

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