Windows app store is giving customers 0X80073CF3 when UWP app is to be installed or upgraded

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Windows app store is giving customers 0X80073CF3 when UWP app is to be installed or upgraded

Karhu Koti 76

Regarding the Satellite Tracking on the Windows app store, users including myself are now getting this error form the Microsoft Store: 0X80073CF3

My machine did take some updates earlier in the day.

I tried installing via powershell and I get the following error below.

As I read on the internet, Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.3 is supposed to be installed by the app store.

What should I do or do Microsoft need to fix this ?

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $packageSat = "C:\Users\karhu\Downloads\4191KarhuKoti.Satellites_10.17763.419.0_neutral_~_sd64qgh20x0ty.Msixbundle"

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Add-AppxPackage -Path $packageSat

Add-AppxPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CF3, Package failed updates, dependency or conflict validation.

Windows cannot install package 4191KarhuKoti.Satellites_10.17763.419.0_x64__sd64qgh20x0ty because this package depends on a framework that could not be found. Provide the framework

"Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.3" published by "CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US", with neutral or x64 processor architecture and

minimum version 2.3.0.0, along with this package to install. The frameworks with name "Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.3" currently installed are: {}

NOTE: For additional information, look for [ActivityId] f6963aa5-5bc2-0002-4e75-99f6c25bdc01 in the Event Log or use the command line Get-AppPackageLog -ActivityID

f6963aa5-5bc2-0002-4e75-99f6c25bdc01

At line:1 char:1

+ Add-AppxPackage -Path $packageSat

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (C:\Users\karhu\...x0ty.Msixbundle:String) [Add-AppxPackage], IOException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DeploymentError,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.AddAppxPackageCommand

Steven Blom 11 Reputation points

2025-11-25T22:41:05.29+00:00

We're also having this issue, and I've sent in a support request for it, but in case someone here at Microsoft sees it first.

I've noticed that the .msixupload package that we uploaded to Partner Center had the intended Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.2 dependency, but during certification and publishing, it was bumped to 2.3.

This was verified by using a website to manually download the .msix that the Windows Store will install.

Republishing the package did not resolve the issue.
Karhu Koti 76 Reputation points

2025-11-26T06:47:03.12+00:00

That is interesting - when the problem started happening for us and I downloaded from that site you mentioned, it said 2.2, but I will have to look at it again today and see what it says (as app store downloads seem to be working again).

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Steven Blom 11 Reputation points

2025-11-25T22:41:05.29+00:00

We're also having this issue, and I've sent in a support request for it, but in case someone here at Microsoft sees it first.

I've noticed that the .msixupload package that we uploaded to Partner Center had the intended Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.2 dependency, but during certification and publishing, it was bumped to 2.3.

This was verified by using a website to manually download the .msix that the Windows Store will install.

Republishing the package did not resolve the issue.
Karhu Koti 76 Reputation points

2025-11-26T06:47:03.12+00:00

That is interesting - when the problem started happening for us and I downloaded from that site you mentioned, it said 2.2, but I will have to look at it again today and see what it says (as app store downloads seem to be working again).

Answer 1

Tom McDonald 5 Microsoft Employee

Hello! I am very sorry to hear about the store app publish problem!!! The store ingestion pipeline issue has been corrected, and so please try incrementing the package version and resubmitting through Partner Center. This should retrigger app compilation in the ingestion pipeline and correct the issue in the store. In the future, please feel free to reach out to us directly at dotnetnative@microsoft.com for direct help!

Tom

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Answer 2

The AI answer said to install it from the app store -> it is not listed.

The AI answer also said to run the following command, but you can see it didn't get installed in powershell.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-AppxPackage -Name Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.3

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-AppxPackage *NET.Native.Framework* | Select Name, Version

Name Version

---- -------

Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.2 2.2.29512.0

Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.1.3 1.3.24211.0

Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.1.7 1.7.27413.0

Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.0 2.0.27427.0

Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.1 2.1.27427.0

Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.2 2.2.29512.0

So perhaps the AI can answer more precisely this next time.

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