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Add per-user vs all-users deployment and install locations FAQ - #496

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Summary

Adds a consolidated FAQ that ties together MSIX per-user vs all-users deployment, install locations and package volumes (multi-drive), and multi-user access. This information was previously split across three articles with no page connecting them, which left developers without a single answer to common multi-user / multi-drive questions.

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  • New article: msix-src/desktop/deployment-per-user-vs-all-users.md (ms.topic: faq) answering:
    • How installation works (staging one shared copy plus per-user registration)
    • Per-user vs all-users (provisioning) deployment
    • How to make an installed app available to another user
    • Whether an MSIX app can be installed on or moved to a different drive (package volumes)
    • Whether the same app can live on different drives for different users on one machine
    • Who manages the filesystem permissions for MSIX packages
  • Added the article to msix-src/toc.yml under "Manage your MSIX deployment".
  • Added a "Related content" cross-link to the new article from the three source articles:
    • desktop/deploy-preinstalled-apps.md
    • desktop/desktop-to-uwp-behind-the-scenes.md
    • desktop/powershell-msix-cmdlets.md

Work item

Fixes AB#63134194

Notes

Content is sourced entirely from existing MSIX docs (staging/registration/provisioning, package volumes, and the AppxVolume/Move-AppxPackage cmdlets); no new product behavior is asserted.

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Consolidates per-user vs all-users deployment, install locations/package volumes (multi-drive), and multi-user access into a single concept article under Manage your MSIX deployment, and cross-links the three source articles that previously split this information.

Fixes AB#63134194

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot-Session: cc89f2d3-d97a-4c6b-bcdf-74d243de7f81
Restructures the per-user vs all-users deployment and install locations article into a FAQ (ms.topic: faq), including the multi-user/multi-drive access scenario as a question. Updates the TOC entry and cross-link text to match.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot-Session: cc89f2d3-d97a-4c6b-bcdf-74d243de7f81
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Learn Build status updates of commit 6e7b0da:

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Roy (RDMacLachlan) marked this pull request as draft July 16, 2026 19:20
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