MSIX - Using the Bulk Conversion Scripts

Hello everyone, this is Ingmar Oosterhoff, a Modern Workplace Customer Engineer at Microsoft. In an earlier series of posts we set up our environment to do batch sequencing using App-V. In this blog I will explain how we can set up our machine so we can do batch conversion of our application installers into MSIX packages

We will be using the Bulk conversion scripts from the MSIX Toolkit.

In my example below I will be using Hyper-V VMs on my laptop, but it is also a possibility to use remote machines to do the heavy lifting.

A benefit of using Hyper-V VMs on my machine is that the Bulk conversion scripts can utilize the checkpoint functionality, so it nicely reverts the VMs to a clean state to be re-used for the next app.


Let us start by preparing the host machine, my laptop.

The shopping list:

• MSIX Packaging tool
• Hyper V
• Some VMs
• Share containing installers.
• A Signing certificate.
• Signtool.exe

The MSIX Packaging Tool can be installed from the Microsoft Store, so that is an easy step.

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Regards,
Daniel