Anti-Disregardation for COM in MSIX

It took more than 3 years for this to creep into my brain. 

Over the six years since the original release MSIX Microsoft has added schema extensions to handle situations that the original MSIX didn’t support. COM support is a very important area of these improvements.  But originally the documentation was either incomplete or wrong, and we weren’t sure what …

PSF v2024.02.04

Psf LogoThe Package Support Framework (PSF) was originally a Microsoft open-source project to help Win32/DotNet applications run when inside an MSIX Container.  TMurgent has taken up the support for the PSF in our own fork here on GitHub.

 

A new update to the PSF has been released. From the release notes:

  • Updated RegLegacyFixup to more certain intercepts from Kernel32.dll

AppV2MSIX

An open source tool to automate conversion of your App-V Packages to MSIX.

It seems I forgot to add a blog post about this tool when I released it last fall. So here it is to make it more visible.

AppV2MSIX is a powershell script that will automate the conversion of a folder full of App-V packages to MSIX. If …

PSF v2024.01.02

Psf LogoThe Package Support Framework (PSF) was originally an open-source project to help Win32/DotNet applications run when inside an MSIX Container.  TMurgent has taken up the support for the PSF in our own fork here on GitHub.

 

A new update to the PSF has been released. From the release notes:

  • RegLegacyFixup: Added support for two new rule types, DeletionMarker and

TMEditX 3.7 Release

TMEditX is the licensed and much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package.  [Download_page]

To wrap up the end of the year, we have a bevy of new features to improve your packaging! The PSF version remains the same this release (v2023.08.28 …

(MSIX) AppAttach with TMEditX

AppAttach is a technique that uses “application layering” methods to quickly mount and publish MSIX applications in non-persistent (pooled) VDI scenarios and shared operating systems like RDS and Multi-user Windows 10.

MSIX AppAttach is the Microsoft-branded feature for Azure Virtual Desktops that uses this technique to deploy applications to AVD sessions. Other vendors with application management features also use this