The Quick Assist tool came in the past as a default executable which was located into the system32 folder of Windows. Starting with Windows 10 21H2, Microsoft decided to move Quick Assist into the Microsoft Store. The first issue we see is that Quick Assist was only placed in system32 […]
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After I have did a small test lab for Azure Virtual Desktop, it was time to play a little bit with MSIX App Attach functionality that Azure offers. However, after my virtual machine was created, when I went into the host pool to add an MSIX package, the following error […]
If you need to download an MSIX/APPX package from the Microsoft Store, you don’t technically have any alternative rather than the actual Store. But I’ve stumbled upon a PowerShell script designed by Mattias which is easy to use and so far it works great. First, navigate to the GitHub repository […]
Sometimes we need to have a single distribution package as an MSIX, which includes MSIX supported features along with MSI features that are no longer available (such as old drivers). Unlike MSI, MSIX doesn’t have sequences and doesn’t support custom actions — as we covered in our comprehensive 24 chapter […]
In the packaging industry, we’re used to using application dependencies very often. And with the transition from MSI to MSIX, we have more options to declare and handle them. In MSI, we use Prerequisites to chain multiple dependencies — which means that the installation would continue only if the product […]
Until recently, there was no possibility to group your applications (formerly known as shortcuts) under a Start Menu folder for MSIX Packages. This feature was requested by many people and Microsoft released a preview of it recently. In this article we are going to have a look on how you […]
A few days ago I’ve stumbled across a situation where an MSIX application was decided to be removed from all users in the infrastructure. However, there were many versions of the applications and some users even had multiple architectures installed on the machine. To make things much easier and in […]
Debugging an MSIX is not such an easy task. The execution is happening in a container so it’s not that easy to find out why an application is crashing. There are many tools out there which can help you debug MSIX apps like Hover, MSIX Commander, Process Monitor, etc. With […]