MSIX App Attach Packaging Apps for Windows Virtual Desktop WVD, VDI, RDS Step by Step

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In this video we look at a step by guide using MSIX app attach to package applications to a virtual hard disk (VHD) for mounting to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) session hosts (Windows 10 2004) uploaded to Azure files.
In short this gives us an easy way to package applications both old and new, and deliver to VDI, WVD or RDS environments. This enables a central reliable solution to manage our apps, reducing network bandwidth and disk space optimisations. MSIX app attach is Microsoft tool and a form of application virtualization which we can compare to, for example App-V.
Contents of this video
1. Install MSIX application on Windows 10 2004
2. Package user application into MSIX format
3. Install a self-signed certificate for our app
4. Create and prepare a new Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) for our app
5. Unpack MSIX application to VHD for deployment
6. Copy the VHD to Azure Files for access from WVD session hosts
7. Mount the VHD to WVD session hosts for deployment from Azure Files
8. Run the packaged app in WVD on a session host
9. Run the packaged app in WVD as a remote application
Intro MSIX app attach
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MSIX app attach tool download
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Microsoft MSIX app attach mount scripts and setup documentation
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@aurenX 2 жыл бұрын

Very good video it answered some questions I had. I would love to see an updated version with the new msix app attach menu that was added. I did have a question, how does this method handle program updates. Do you need to repackage or does a traditional update work? Thank you

@Cmart6444 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video!

@CloudInspired Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@mohamednur2072 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks good video

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mohamed

@asriazmi 2 жыл бұрын

can it work with apps that require schema update? i keep getting database error

@nicolasleal8923 3 жыл бұрын

I have been following the video, and I get the error 0x8007007B when running the mounting script. Any reason why?

@mohamednur2072 3 жыл бұрын

Can you please make a video about business store and intune portal(import and published apps to windows 10 clients) what privileges needed etc

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mohamed, i`ll put your suggested intune video on my todo list!

@sandeepreddytalla 3 жыл бұрын

i got this error Either you need a new certificate installed for this app package, or you need a new app package with trusted certificates. Your system administrator or the app developer can help. A certificate chain processed, but terminated in a root certificate which isn't trusted

@roshaantherollercoaster5119 3 жыл бұрын

I've packaged apps that are in .exe format and are available as a stand-alone. Now I need to package Office 2016 that has a range of files with different extensions. MSIX Packaging Tool is asking to choose the installer I want to package. What should I actually package? Similarly, I also want to package Visual Studio 2019 using MSIX Packaging tool. Please assist.

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Roshann. Looks like its on the on the roadmap. Windows and Office are working on enabling Microsoft 365 Apps (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel) to be packaged and delivered in MSIX format techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/msix-deployment/msix-packaging-of-office-applications-visio-project-proplus/m-p/1058109

@JacobEgan Жыл бұрын

Are there any options for using MSIX / App Attach on server 2022 on premise (that aren't a third party subscription)?

@CloudInspired Жыл бұрын

Hi Jacob, Its Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Enterprise Multi-session, version 2004 or later learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/app-attach-faq#which-operating-systems-support-msix-app-attach-

@dreamhacker12000 3 жыл бұрын

when I tried to run my msix, it is showing untrusted app even though I created a self signed certificate and signed with it. Do you know why?

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Euro, It might be worth confirming the following in articles: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/msix-the-msix-packaging-tool-signing-the-msix-package/ba-p/363547 docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/app-installer/troubleshoot-appinstaller-issues

@TiteufMela Жыл бұрын

Nice content, When you installed the msix app on windows 10, the windows 10 is it a ajoined vm domain or standalone vm on azure? we need specifically this v2004 or any windows 10 image?

@CloudInspired Жыл бұрын

Hi Taoufik, In this video at the time of release there was an earlier requirement to have both Azure AD and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain controllers in place for domain join. Azure Virtual Desktop VMs can now join directly to Azure AD, this removes the need to join Virtual Desktops to traditional Active Directory Domain Services. See Microsoft article for more info learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/wvd/azure-virtual-desktop-azure-active-directory-join To setup MSIX app attach, An Azure Virtual Desktop host pool with at least one active session host is required. You can select any Azure VM image OS that's supported for AVD learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/prerequisites#operating-systems-and-licenses

@TiteufMela Жыл бұрын

@@CloudInspired what are the permissions delegated to WVD user, because the user that i am using to connect to a vm in session host has only vm users login on host pool and SMB share contributor on file level in storage account?

@TiteufMela Жыл бұрын

because i am receiving acces denied when i am launching powershell with this user.

@grahambrown5874 3 жыл бұрын

So much easier and quicker to create custom in a vm, add application, sysprep and copy vdx uri to the session host during build. To update the apps you boot the vm, apply updates, sysprep and link vdx uri to new session host. At the moment, i find appattach to much work. Good video though.

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Graham, thats a fair comment. MSIX app attach is getting easier though with the Azuer portal integration which doesn`t rely on the heavy use of Powershell to configure.

@msftcloudgeek 3 жыл бұрын

WVD.. not VWD :)

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Need to put my teeth back in :)

@rakib.rahman 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, but must say Microsoft has really made it hard and it is not really simple to use. A much better approach would be from Intune and just assign apps from user groups or username and everything should be mounted automatically.

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Rakib. We have a lot of customers that find the process of using powershell scripts to achieve the mounting and management of the VHDs in WVD quite a tedious task after they have been packaged with MSIX App attach. Microsoft public preview will be release shortly showing the ability to manage MSIX App Attach inside the Azure portal. MSIX App Attach in WVD portal will allow us to point to a packaged VHD from a UNC path. This SMB share contains VHD's, i.e in Azure Files. This will enable your WVD session hosts to mount read only VHDs without powershell. With regards to using intune and installing apps to each device operating system, it could be done this way ( as this video shows kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hc5idsR-06uxhqM.html ), but using MSIX App attach enables full separation of the applications from the underlying operating system and therefore the virtual machine. This then has the advantage of greater flexibility, scalability and control enabling you to package and quickly deliver your apps to devices without installing on each device operating system. I`ll keep this channel comments updated as soon as Microsoft release the public preview of managing MSIX App Attach inside Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Portal, as that should provide easier delivery and management of VHDs.

@rakib.rahman 3 жыл бұрын

@@CloudInspired Thanks for your reply. But in my opinion if you have the msix file, Azure/Intune do the mounting for you, its a straight forward prosess since there is not any properties that can be changed during the mounting. Intune does support MSIX files and maybe there should be a azure files connection there? But I have not seen support for windows 10 multisession in Intune.

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Rakib, yes agreed you can deploy a MSIX package with Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center (Intune) portal. Add a Windows .msix in Apps > All Apps > Line-of-business-app. Looks like the issue as you state is the WVD support and also the ability to mount a VHD (packaged with MSIX) from a SMB share like Azure files. It appears that will be provided in the WVD portal as part of the public preview when released.

@rakib.rahman 3 жыл бұрын

@@CloudInspired Thanks for our discussion. Just discovered this app, but have not tested it yet. msixhero.net/documentation/creating-vhd-for-msix-app-attach/

@CloudInspired 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoying the discussion Rakib, thanks for your comments. MSIX Hero is a free tool which creates the MSIX app attach VHD from the MSIX package automatically as well as the scripts to mount to session hosts. Hopefully we can use MSIX app attach functionality via the Azure Portal and it will be released soon, so we don`t need to use scripts to mount and its all integrated into the WVD portal. I`m watching the roadmap on www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Windows%20Virtual%20Desktop and hopefully this will be available shortly!