Recent DiscussionsMost RecentNewest TopicsMost LikesSolutionsTagged:TagRe: Are A3 and A5 licenses not good enough to get Windows Autopatch? We recently announced availability of Autopatch Groups and Reporting to A3+. The features are being rolled out over the next several weeks. More info here: Why Windows Autopatch is the smart update solution - Windows IT Pro Blog Re: The internal MSIX app update mechanism and Enterprise IT needs TIMOTHY_MANGAN Roy_MacLachlan has the details. The settings should be available through the MDM agent or can be set via PowerShell. Re: Build 1105 issuesHappy to look into this further if you can submit an item after the class to help us better understand the issue.Re: MSIX app package maximum file size limitationWe have had games shipping in the Microsoft Store in excess of 100 GB using the MSIX file format. John.Re: MSIX Packages for Microsofts Products - (Timeframes)I don't have a public update to share on behalf of Office at this time.Re: MSIX question regarding system checks adelkeita Hardware specific checks are a feature of the Microsoft Store. Feel free to add asks to the section of the community for future consideration. John Vintzel (https://twitter.com/jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: Remote desktop services 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 Re: Is the old Desktop Converter tools still supposed to work? okoenders No, the Desktop App Converter was deprecated in 2019. If your app is under active development we recommend using the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/source-code-overview in Visual Studio. If your app is not under active development we recommend using the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/packaging-tool/tool-overview or an https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/partners product. John Vintzel (https://twitter.com/jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: Installing/Updating an MSIX package with Windows Service under two admin users akumarr Sorry, nothing new to report yet. I'd probably also recommend filing an item in feedback hub which should get you better status updates. John. Re: Microsoft Office add-in deployment using MSIX Jozef Izso We understand your excitement for this ask. Unfortunately this is all we can disclose and are unable to provide more timelines at this time. Please follow Office and MSIX blog for a formal announcement as more becomes available. John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: Multiple IP addresses on Windows Server 2016 rdachows Please try posting here: Windows Server Community (microsoft.com) Re: MSIX Dependencies alexmarin89 The dependency field is similar to the appxmanifest and intended for framework packages. Looking at the files it appears you are trying to leverage the dependency field to chain install multiple main msix packages, which is invalid for that field. John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: Deployment by Appinstaller cause URI handling popup without the app link vshmelev You may also want to verify the Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller app is installed. You can do this by running the following command from PowerShell Get-AppPackage Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller We have seen power users bulk purge this when removing preinstalled apps. It newer versions of Windows this will be non-removable to prevent accidental uninstall. John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: MSIX Packaging of Office applications ( VISIO/PROJECT/PROPLUS) bJozefiak Windows and Office are working hard to enable M365 Apps (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel) to be packaged and delivered in MSIX format with the same full extensibility that customer enjoy in Click-to-Run and MSI; we’ll communicate details and timelines as these become available. John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: App does not launch immediately after installation but after a 40 mins delay it launches again Mo_Velayati Are you able to file a feedback item on the affect devices so we can get more information to investigate? Meanwhile you can also look for more information in the event logs. Event Viewer (Local) > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > AppXDeployment-Server > Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeploymentServer/Operational John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: Installing/Updating an MSIX package with Windows Service under two admin users akumarr It looks like there is a potential bug in an admin flow here. We are investigating the issue. John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: uap10:PackageIntegrity not working? marvin_r To clarify the package integrity option does a light weight check against the trust level ACE to detect tampering of files. Due to I/O and performance we do not do a full rescan of the blockmap. That being said it would not detect deletes. We are adding some full blockmap validation that can be forced in the next version of Windows to help address this. This is a similar experience in the Microsoft Store workflows. John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: MSIX Packaging Tool: Missing File Type Associations brasmusson If there is a specific feature you are looking please add it to the ideas section. We do our best to update as feature are being built and available to insider builds. http://aka.ms/msix-ideas John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: Downgrade MSIX app setting Kragunath Version downgrade is supported on Windows 10 2004. The functionality to let a user double-click and downgrade an app was added through an app update. Make sure you have the latest version of the Desktop App Installer app for this experience. I believe the latest version is: 1.0.32912.0 You can verify from PowerShell by running this command: Get-AppPackage Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX Re: Pre-Install checks rkamarowski It depends on the deployment. If it is automated we check if there is a version and if the installed version is newer, we stop deployment (although you can force override this in 1809). If there is an older version we always install and bring the users forward. In an automated case if you wanted to pin to a version we would recommend using the rules in the system management tool. For click to install, we inform the user of the what is installed and they get the decision to install, update, or downgrade as appropriate. John Vintzel (@jvintzel) PM Lead, MSIX
Recent Blog ArticlesNewest TopicsMost LikesTagged:TagRealigning the MSIX Tech Community MSIX is now part of the Windows Community! Find out where to hold discussions, catch up on news, and file feedback. MSIX Packaging Extension v1.1 is now available! We are happy to announce that the MSIX Packaging Extension v1.1 is now available in the Azure DevOps Marketplace! This release features improvements in the MSIX package signing task, which now ...What's new in MSIX (March 2021 update) We have created a new depth on demand session to catch you up on MSIX as of March 2021. MSIX Labs for Developers are now available! MSIX Labs for Developers is a hands-on labs experience to help developers learn how to modernize their desktop apps by taking advantage of MSIX. MSIX Packaging Extension is now available in the Azure DevOps Marketplace! The MSIX Packaging Extension is an Azure DevOps extension which helps build, package and sign Windows apps using the MSIX package format. New MSIX pre-recorded sessions - September 2020 We have a lot of new content on MSIX for IT Pros and developers. Check out the new sessions! New Updates to the MSIX Labs for IT Pros now available! 2008 Update for the MSIX Labs now available!! MSIX Toolkit updated for Windows 10, version 2004 (10.0.19041.0) We have released a refresh to the MSIX Toolkit. The Toolkit has been updated with redistributables from the Windows 10, version 2004 SDK. In addition we have created easy to download individual .zip ...Improved MSIX Docs site Check out our updated doc site http://aka.ms/msix MSIX Packaging Tool January 2020 release is now available (1.2019.1220.0) MSIX Packaging Tool 1.2019.1220.0; The January 2020 release of the MSIX Packaging Tool is now live!!
