MSIX Application Package Support

Microsoft recently introduced MSIX as an alternative to EXE, MSI, and even AppX packages. MSIX is a Windows app package format that provides a modern packaging experience to all Windows apps. The MSIX package format preserves the functionality of existing app packages and/or install files in addition to enabling new, modern packaging and deployment features to Win32, WPF, and Windows Forms apps.

App Portal supports the deployment of this new MSIX Application package format along with existing formats. You can create the software catalog item for the MSIX application package like you can with any existing format types. An Admin can add this package as part of the Application (and not as Package type of catalog item). Further end users can request this catalog item and App Portal will fulfill this request via SCCM and this will install the software on to target device.