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StephenWhiteD3G
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Jun 16, 2020

Windows 10 2004 - MSIX Not Updating -Please check whether the Msixvc support services are installed.

We use MSIX for one of our LOB applications at my organization. We recently updated some machines to Windows 10 2004 to test it before rolling it out to the rest of the company. One problem we ha...
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Jun 17, 2020

Hi StephenWhiteD3G,

 

Could you please send us the link to your Feedback Hub item so we can take a closer look?

 

What kind of LOB application do you have? I notice the error contains 'MSIXVC' and MSIXVC is an extension of MSIX that is specifically designed for games that are published through PC GamePass; it is not used for non-game scenarios.

 

Best,

Sharla

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StephenWhiteD3G
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Jun 17, 2020





Hi Sharla,

The LOB app is a WPF application using the Desktop Bridge targeting .NET Core 3.X.

Here is the feedback hub link:

https://aka.ms/AA8r372


I also noticed today that the App Installer project did not have itself set to target 2004. I am going to make this adjustment and let you know if this changes anything tonight when we run our next update for production.

Edit / Update: Unfortunately adjusting the App Installer to target 2004 did not make any changes. Also we found that if the user tries to go to the web page generated by the app installer project and clicks get the app, they get an error saying that it cannot open the MSIX Bundle. Either they have to restart their machine or they have to download the MSIX Bundle manually and run it.

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    StephenWhiteD3G
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    Jun 18, 2020
    @Sharla

    One other addendum:

    If we try to run the app installer on a computer that is on the fast ring, it gets a different, albeit misleading error:

    0x8008020C. The specific error text for this failure is: error 0xC00CEE23: The XML in the .appinstaller file is not valid: Line 18, Column 13, Reason: '>' expected.


    The same error shows up in the Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeploymentServer/Operational log.

    However if I open up the app installer file and inspect it, it doesn't have any obvious signs of having any invalid XML, and again, it runs fine if I restart the machine or download the MSIX Bundle and run that directly.

    It's almost like there's some other app installer file getting stuck somewhere and its running that instead of the one that I intend to run...?

    I'm surprised I am the only one who has reported this; if you need any additional details, please let me know, this has us baffled. I think we can use a work around but I need to check a couple of different things. The obvious work around right now is to have the user restart their machine before updating, but obviously that gets old fast.
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      ShakersMSFT
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      Jun 18, 2020

      hi StephenWhiteD3G,

       

      Can you file feedback from impacted machines and the specific apps that fail to install? The feedback you filed previously doesn't have the logs we need to investigate further.

       

      Best, 

      Sharla 

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        StephenWhiteD3G
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        Jun 19, 2020
        Hi Sharla,

        I thought I did, but I'll do my best to get a repro going on one of them ASAP. Thanks for letting me know they were missing.

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