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[BUG] Unable to run msix applications in offline networks.
Project MSIX SDK or Win7Msix
Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is. Third party msix applications are unable to run in any network isolated away from the Internet.
Apparently To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Install an msix application outside of the Store such as Windows Terminal. Attempt to run it. It will not run and provide a network path error instead. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6010#issuecomment-792800655 goes into detail for the network analysis.
Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.
I expect online activation to be optional through the msix packaging system and instead allow app developers to configure whether or not online activation is needed. Introduce or re-use a mechanism on Windows to allow the integrity check offline (perhaps related to SECPOL or something similar?) Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.
Platform All Windows 10 and Server 2016 and above versions. Possibly/Probably Win7 as well but can't test. Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.
Security compliance requires that usage of online activity be at a minimum. Depending on many factors, this may mean no activity whatsoever. This is especially true in the case of Server where at most, WSUS is the only Windows Server with any kind of Internet connection to get patches.
Adding additional context: We're working in an offline environment and would like to switch from Hyper to Windows Terminal. This issue is blocking the switch.
@samiranshah-zz I see you're assigned to this issue. It's been over a year with no word. Can we get an update into progress here? This is a significant issue for many enterprise customers. It doesn't matter about the politics going on at Microsoft that are trying to push everyone to being open to the Internet. That's not MS call to make, that's the customer. As a customer, we demand complete offline support for installing and updating applications. Microsoft provided msix as the route to go for publishing applications, so please support your offline customers as you used to do. These days, it seems more an afterthought or more likely an intentional oversight.