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Windows Server 2019 support for App Installer / MSIX #319

Open carlin-q-scott opened 2 years ago

carlin-q-scott commented 2 years ago

The table on this page says Windows Server 2019 has "App Installer File Support" and "Native MSIX install and uninstall", but this article says they're not supported, except through PowerShell. Am I misunderstanding what's meant by "App Installer File Support"?

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anarvekar-msft commented 2 years ago

Hi @carlin-q-scott thank you for your question. App installer files (files with the .appinstaller extension) are not the same as the app installer application. .appinstaller files enable auto-updates of apps. You can install them through powershell with something like Add-AppPackage -AppInstallerFile something.appinstaller

That is independent of the App Installer app that you get when you double-click on an .msix, .msixbundle, .appx, .appxbundle, or, .appinstaller and a UI walks you through installing. The app is not present in Windows server.