Yes Marcel there is! Using Liquit Workspace and a Smart Icon.

On LinkedIn Marcel kindly asked: “Hopefully, there is a smarter way, as I used in my workaround”. Luckily, the applications settings are in the user profiles, so the applications are still configured after reinstallation.” The users have to install the app again from the Windows Store. If the user logs off at the end of the day and logs in the next day, the applications are gone, and only a dead item is left in the start menu. Some of the users install applications from the Windows Store (Appx, Universal Apps). The users are using a dedicated session host, and the profile is managed with FSLogix to save user data on a file server additionally. “A few weeks ago, a customer told me about a particular behavior in their Azure Virtual Desktop environment. When you look at the AppxManifest.xml it is an MSIX: That one comes as 5319275A.WhatsAppDesktop_2.2140.5.0_圆4_cv1g1gvanyjgm.Appx which is an MSIX package.

Marcel Meurer recently wrote a blog called The secret about disappearing appx / UWP applications in an environment using FSLogix in which he refers to ‘WhatsApp Desktop’ which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store.

You probably remember my first three blogs about WhatsApp Desktop which, like Brave Browser and Telegram Desktop, are installed in the user’s context instead of the device context.

Whatsapp desktop apps