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Stefan Georgiev
Microsoft
MicrosoftMSIX app attach Azure portal integration public preview
MSIX app attach is an application layering solution that allows you to dynamically attach an application (that is an MSIX package) to a user session. Separating the application from the operating sys...
Finally resolved my issues and got it working. But has anyone app attached anything actually useful?
Adobe Reader gave me C:\ errors at startup of the app
Quickbooks doesn't work
Adobe DC doesn't work
It's all fine and dandy if I can do Notepad++ and VLC player as a POC but that serves 0 purpose in a production environment.
Winamp didn't work, and that's as simple as VLC so this whole process seems very very spotty.
Has anyone packaged a more complex program from an exe or msi to MSIX and had it work?
Adobe Reader gave me C:\ errors at startup of the app
Quickbooks doesn't work
Adobe DC doesn't work
It's all fine and dandy if I can do Notepad++ and VLC player as a POC but that serves 0 purpose in a production environment.
Winamp didn't work, and that's as simple as VLC so this whole process seems very very spotty.
Has anyone packaged a more complex program from an exe or msi to MSIX and had it work?
- Hey DBR14,
no, that’s exactly the problem with msix 😞
I would guess that the success rate of repackaging into msix is around 50%, maybe 60%?!?! 😞
That’s why nearly all of my customers where I have done a POC stepped back to SCCM or similar 😞
But...maybe I‘m wrong 😉- Stefan Georgiev and TomHickling
can you please tell me what agent version is needed for msix app attach in the portal?
background for this question: I have a customer who is whitelisted since January, but had huuuge problems with agent version 2848, every single session hosts was in state "Needs assistance"
we turned off the validation environment, so the agent went back to 2800, and ALL session hosts went green and were available *TOP*
But...next problem...we went through the portal and attached a few msix packages, but none of them were available for a user 😞
is it because we are on 2800, or because we turned off the VE?
thanks guys
Stefan GeorgievJochen Berners its not just about the agent version. 1 host must in in validation environment (as even the right agent version) in non-validation will not work. right now the version for agent is anything pas 2800.
- One use recently was the MEMCM (sccm) console
For an environment where admins log in to wvd to perform admin tasks.
Advantages being the MEMCM console gets updated when you update your site, so instead having to update each wvd host you can just change version on msix and publish.
