Question

You manage a pooled, non-persistent AVD host pool that is rebuilt weekly from a golden image in an Azure Compute Gallery. The finance team needs a legacy line-of-business application published as a RemoteApp. The application ships only as a traditional MSI installer, requires a machine-wide registry key, and must be identical across all session hosts. Users must NOT be able to install or update the app themselves. What is the recommended way to deliver this application to the session hosts?

Accepted Answer

Install the MSI into the golden image during image build, then publish it from a RemoteApp application group after the hosts are provisioned

Answer

Package the application as an App attach (MSIX) image on a file share and attach it at user logon, then publish it as a RemoteApp

Answer

Deploy the MSI to each user via Intune user-targeted assignment so it installs into the FSLogix profile container

Answer

Have users download and run the MSI from a OneDrive Known Folder after signing in to the session desktop