current prereleased not installing in latest Azure VM (VS 2022 Enterprise in Windows Enterprise N)

[anirugu]

Brief description of your issue

I tried to create a VM in azure and remove all windows 11 apps and store was not there. I tried to install it using Add-AppPackage command in powershell it's not working

Add-AppPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CF3, Package failed updates, dependency or conflict validation. Windows cannot install package Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_1.19.2161.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe because this package depends on a framework that could not be found. Provide the framework "Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop" published by "CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US", with neutral or x64 processor architecture and minimum version 14.0.30704.0, along with this package to install. The frameworks with name "Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop" currently installed Windows cannot install package Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_1.19.2161.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe because this package depends on a framework that could not be found. Provide the framework "Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop" published by "CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US", with neutral or x64 processor architecture and minimum version 14.0.30704.0, along with this package to install. The frameworks with name "Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop" currently installed are: {Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop_14.0.29231.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe} NOTE: For additional information, look for [ActivityId] a7621c07-d11f-0002-7119-706606acd801 in the Event Log or use the command line Get-AppPackageLog -ActivityID a7621c07-d11f-0002-7119-706606acd801 At line:1 char:1

• Add-AppPackage

•   + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (C:\Users\anirud...bbwe.msixbundle:String) [Add-AppxPackage], IOException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DeploymentError,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.AddAppxPackageCommand
  
  

Steps to reproduce

Use step mention in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1hBZgRvZzI then tried to install the msixbundle file (latest prereleased). it's failing with the given error.

Expected behavior

It must install and work.

Actual behavior

failing with the error.

Environment

Tried in azure vm. you can do the same.

[denelon]

@anirugu we aren't fully supported on Windows Server yet (Windows Server 2022 should be considered experimental). We're building the business case with a community discussion. There are some larger concerns around offline update scenarios.

There has been a flurry of recent activity around predictable / reliable install behaviors. I'm looking to bring some of that work into our 1.4 release, as well as other work that needs to happen on Windows Server. Our goal is to make it possible to just install Windows and we're already there in the future, and well documented reliable mechanisms for automating the installation on other Windows SKUs.

[anirugu]

@denelon I tried it on Windows 11 machine Enterprise N (VS 2022 Enterprise). It's not working there.

[denelon]

There are a couple of related Issues:

• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/2434
• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/2436

Is the "App Installer" preinstalled on that VM? Is the Microsoft Store enabled to get an update to "App Installer"?

[anirugu]

nope. I run the script that remove all uwp bloatware. After that I tried to run msixbundle file. As it's working for me on my machine, I start believing it will work on Windows PC (not server) VM too. Is Azure VM have anything different than the OS released in public.

[denelon]

It must. I'm not sure how those SKUs (Azure VMs) are configured.

[ItzLevvie]

Provide the framework "Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop" published by "CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US", with neutral or x64 processor architecture and minimum version 14.0.30704.0, along with this package to install.

The frameworks with name "Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop" currently installed are: Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop_14.0.29231.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

You need the latest version of Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop from https://aka.ms/Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx = Add-AppxPackage -Path https://aka.ms/Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx

For Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7, you can download it from https://globalcdn.nuget.org/packages/microsoft.ui.xaml.2.7.2.nupkg and install Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7.appx from the tools\AppX\x64\Release folder inside of the microsoft.ui.xaml.2.7.2.nupkg file.

Here's all required dependencies (x64) to make deployment a bit easier: WinGet dependencies.zip