Solution
Use EtherApps Forge for agentic app packaging with Foundry-backed orchestration to capture applications in a controlled virtual machine, choose the right package route, and prepare MSIX, MSI, PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit, and Intune-ready outputs for review.
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The problem
Packaging teams are asked to move faster while dealing with missing installers, unclear dependencies, and multiple deployment targets. Traditional tools still leave skilled packagers to decide the route, rebuild scripts, prepare Intune metadata, and document the decision manually.
Many useful applications only exist as installed footprints on old machines. A VM-based capture route gives the team a practical starting point when clean source media is gone.
MSIX, MSI, PSADT, and Intune-ready packages each fit different deployment paths. The agent helps recommend the right route before rework starts.
Experienced packagers still make the final call, but agentic triage can remove repetitive inspection, script preparation, and metadata work from the critical path.
The workflow keeps human review and evidence around the package route, generated artefacts, and release readiness before anything reaches users.
What changes
Start with the application as it runs, capture the footprint in a controlled Windows environment, and reduce dependency on perfect source installers.
Use Foundry-backed orchestration to analyse application state, dependencies, and destination requirements before the package route is chosen.
Create MSIX, MSI, PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit, or Intune-ready package paths from the same capture-led workflow.
Give the packaging team a reviewable decision trail and release checkpoint, rather than asking an agent to publish without control.
Live-capture wizard: file, registry, AppData, services, and dependency capture from a running Windows system when installer media is missing or incomplete.
Start here
See this working on your own tenant.
The AI controller
Forge's AI controller inspects the captured application state, recommends MSIX, MSI, PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit, or Intune-ready output, and prepares scripts and metadata. The packaging team keeps the final approval before release.
Walkthrough
A focused walkthrough of VM capture, AI-assisted route selection, signing, manifest fix-ups, and Intune-ready outputs.
Feature deep dives
VM-based capture, MSIX outputs, and MCP integration for external orchestration. One focused video per area so packaging, endpoint, and automation teams can jump to the part that matters.
Capture a running Windows application from a controlled VM: files, registry, AppData, services, and dependencies, without installer media.
Produce signed MSIX, AppAttach, IntuneWin, and MSI packages from one capture, ready for Intune, AVD, and Cloud PC delivery.
Drive Forge from your own AI orchestrator through the Forge MCP server: a tool-integration interface for external agents and pipelines. Separate from Forge's internal AI controller.
How we deliver it
This route is led by EtherApps Forge. Forge supplies the VM-based capture and packaging workflow; Microsoft Foundry-backed agentic orchestration helps inspect application state, choose the package route, generate scripts and metadata, and prepare outputs for review. Use the MSIX page when the buyer is specifically searching for MSIX, signing, or App Attach. Use application modernisation when the buyer is planning a broader migration programme.
Capture installed Windows applications, reduce packaging unknowns, and produce modern deployment-ready outputs faster.
7-day free trial of the full workflow · licences include training and support
Questions
Keep the evaluation grounded in VM capture, package-route choice, Intune readiness, and human review before release.
Ask us on a packaging fit checkIt means the packaging workflow uses an AI agent to inspect a controlled virtual machine capture, reason over application behaviour, recommend the package route, and prepare outputs for review. The package is still approved by a human before release.
Reviewed 25 August 2026.
Start here
Use a 7-day Forge trial on a real packaging blocker, or book a packaging fit check to review the VM capture, agentic route selection, package outputs, and approval model before a wider rollout.
No credit card. Capture a real application on day one.
