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Copper Contributor

Dec 14, 2021

Solved

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>

tomcrevier

Copper Contributor

Dec 24, 2021

MikeH Thanks for the details! How do automatic updates work with the workaround? Do they still happen automatically or does the user need to go download the installer manually?

Tom

27k1isms

Copper Contributor

Jan 04, 2022

Unfortunately not a workable solution. Where on earth is the fix Microsoft?