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An idea was previously posted for MSIX integration here:
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-1234
However to gain a better understanding of what people are voting for, this is being split up into separate topics. See the others here:
We would like Patch My PC to support MSIX / AppX as a primary installer type alongside MSI and EXE. These apps can be deployed either on a per-user or per-machine basis.
Here are some related requests for specific MSIX apps that you may wish to upvote:
Apple Devices: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-3817
Drawboard PDF: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-7538
Keeper Desktop: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-2914
NanaZip: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-4051
Slack: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-6045
Teams: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-3374
Windows App: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-4779
Just wanted to give a bit of an inside look at this one since it currently sits as our second highest voted item.
We will absolutely add MSIX support; it's a when, not an if.
One deterrent has been the lack of uptake in the industry. The number of vendors and products taking up the new standard was low and where they were they did so in addition to their MSI/EXE installers. Even beyond that, few of them were critical apps that our telemetry showed high update on. That has obviously changed; Teams was an early one to buck that trend, but it has continued.
A second deterrent is that Microsoft appears to have all but abandoned MSIX. We used to know the PMs for MSIX, I've seen them publicly present on their design goals, current status, and future roadmap. That all seems to be gone now; it feels like MS is calling it 'done'.
Lastly, the largest deterrent has been purely internal to Patch My PC. The way we built our catalog was strongly influenced by the WSUS metadata rules and ConfigMgr's catalog structure. Neither of these natively support MSIX and our entire process keyed off building those. We have spent over a year reengineering our entire catalog process to make those artifacts of the process instead of what it revolved around. We are nearly there, our packaging team is finalizing that work. That won't deliver MSIX support itself, but it makes adding MSIX possible and much, much simpler.
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UNDER CONSIDERATION
This feature is very exciting.
It will allow us to have an automated MSIX packaging pipeline for the AVD hosts.
The primary benefit of MSIX for our current deployment is faster application patching, as we don't need to rebuild the gold image. MSIX apps can be updated live across the fleet. They can also be targeted to individual users, which will be helpful if our requirements grow or if we want to isolate apps to specific personas etc.
This has been in the pipline for a long time now, so I don't expect anything anytime soon but definitely one to watch
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MSIX shouldn't be on roadmap it should of been already in the app, Microsoft everyday is pushing towards MSIX rather than MSI and if we don't get it soon we will start having issues just like claude
I've been able to ignore the Microsoft Store so far, but this stupid ChatGPT/Codex thing made me finally vote on this. We can't elevate and install the msix with the user logged in. We're finding we have to make the user admin, install as them, and then remove admin from their account. This because a problem when it updates every other day and I'm hearing the users can no longer update it themselves. This wasn't an issue when it was branded 'Codex' ... but when they rebranded it to 'ChatGPT' it started needing admin permissions.
Thank you for the transparency, but after more than five years, over 1,000 votes, and this becoming the second-highest-voted request, “when, not if” is no longer sufficient.
Native support for vendor-supplied MSIX/AppX packages is now a core requirement, especially for ConfigMgr and restricted enterprise environments where Microsoft Store or WinGet access is unavailable. Customers need a public milestone, target release window, or preview plan covering publishing, dependencies, architecture, signatures, detection, updates, supersedence, uninstall, and per-machine/per-user deployment.
Please provide a concrete delivery phase and expected timeframe rather than leaving this indefinitely under consideration.
Very much needed for Claude Cowork!
Just wanted to give a bit of an inside look at this one since it currently sits as our second highest voted item.
We will absolutely add MSIX support; it's a when, not an if.
One deterrent has been the lack of uptake in the industry. The number of vendors and products taking up the new standard was low and where they were they did so in addition to their MSI/EXE installers. Even beyond that, few of them were critical apps that our telemetry showed high update on. That has obviously changed; Teams was an early one to buck that trend, but it has continued.
A second deterrent is that Microsoft appears to have all but abandoned MSIX. We used to know the PMs for MSIX, I've seen them publicly present on their design goals, current status, and future roadmap. That all seems to be gone now; it feels like MS is calling it 'done'.
Lastly, the largest deterrent has been purely internal to Patch My PC. The way we built our catalog was strongly influenced by the WSUS metadata rules and ConfigMgr's catalog structure. Neither of these natively support MSIX and our entire process keyed off building those. We have spent over a year reengineering our entire catalog process to make those artifacts of the process instead of what it revolved around. We are nearly there, our packaging team is finalizing that work. That won't deliver MSIX support itself, but it makes adding MSIX possible and much, much simpler.
We needs MSIX support to install the intune specific claude desktop app, and allow the Cowork feature to work.
Add Teams offline support with the switch to remove classic.
PowerShell's MSI is being deprecated starting with 7.7 GA. 7.6 is the final MSI version. We'll need MSIX for continuing support of this app.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-msi-deprecation/
Python is switching their deployment from individual packages to python install manager in the near future. Install manager is deployed via MSIX package. Please add support for this package.
Please also add "Warehouse Management App" (Dynamics 365) for Windows.
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-7881
Please add - Drawboard PDF for Windows - A powerful PDF editor to the list as well. :)
For security we block the store and Winget, so would be helpful to have MSIX packages for Windows app and Company Portal
Needed for the new Remote desktop tool, stupidly called Windows App. What is wrong with Microsoft? First the name is just dumb and second they decide to go to MSIX?
https://www.marticliment.com/unigetui/
They do this using Winget, would be fantastic to leverage Winget updates into PMPC!
Especially for ConfigMgr, where it doesn't allow you to easily push store app updates out like Intune.
I don't know about Config Manager, but most of these are available to install from the Microsoft Store using functionality built into Intune.
Great, all links are working. Thanks for sharing
Also 1Password announcing deprecation of exe in favour of MSIX.
I'd say yes to adding MSIX/AppX support, but still keep support for everything else. I don't think I have any MSIX/AppX installers in my repository.. that I'm aware of. I tend to stay away from MSI installers because they always seem to be bulky and slow to install on older machines that lack sufficient memory. Oh the biggest drawback of MSI is that you can only install one at a time. When I reinstall a machine, I tend to run multiple installers at the same time and get bogged down when I have to install Office and wait..
Also add for Slack MSIX as well.
idea is https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-6045