Installation on Windows Server 2022

[Indirectelex]

Wonder if this is possible to install the latest version manually on windows server 2022, if so please can you tell here how to do it?

[RoyiAvital]

I managed to do so by:

1. Download the latest package of Windows Terminal for Windows 10 (Currently Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_Win10_1.15.2524.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle).
2. Download the latest VC UWP RunTime (Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx). See C++ Runtime framework packages for Desktop Bridge. For some reason the download page Microsoft Visual C++ UWP Desktop Runtime Package doesn't work. It downloads a txt file.

Then open a PowerShell window (Not in Terminal though) and do:

1. Add-AppxPackage -Path <PathTo>\Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx.
2. Add-AppxPackage -Path <PathTo>\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_Win10_1.15.2524.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle.

[DHowett]

You can also get the requisite dependency packages from the "preinstallation kit" ZIP file on the assets page! 😄

[RoyiAvital]

@DHowett , Could you ping someone at MS about the issue I raised on the Microsoft Visual C++ UWP Desktop Runtime Package page.

[bentman]

Thanks! helped with this script to install Dev Tools on Windows Server 2022 -
Add-DevToMyWinServer.ps1

[SkewelVsAll]

Does this add the Desktop/Windows Explorer context menu entries too? And will the same work on Windows 10 LTSC?

[jozefizso]

I tried the choco upgrade -y microsoft-windows-terminal command to install the Terminal on Windows Server 2022 (10.0.20348.1547) and also the manual steps above.

I use an user account with admin rights (not the built-in Administrator account) to develop on Windows Server and the Terminal was not opening for me.

Solution was to run the Terminal as administrator for the first time. I can run it as standard user afterwards.

[wsy]

Just a remind:
As of today (Sep17th, 2023), Windows Terminal v1.17.11461.0 requires Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7
I manually downloaded that package and installed Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7 and I was able to install Windows Terminal v1.17.11461.0.
Also, version 2.8 of Microsoft.UI.Xaml won't work with Windows Terminal v1.17.11461.0.

[tylamb1]

Install Windows Terminal on Server but really anything

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx -outfile Microsoft.VCLibs.x86.14.00.Desktop.appx
Add-AppxPackage Microsoft.VCLibs.x86.14.00.Desktop.appx

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/releases/

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/releases/tag/v2.8.5

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/releases/download/v2.8.5/Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.x64.appx -outfile Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.x64.appx
Add-AppxPackage Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.x64.appx

install WindowsTerminal

get the latest version and update the links below

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/download/v1.18.2822.0/Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.18.2822.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle -outfile Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.18.2822.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle
Add-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.18.2822.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

[AndreyRyzhakov]

Is it possible to install on windows terminal server for all users?

[wsy]

Maybe this link will help: https://superuser.com/questions/647927/install-windows-store-app-package-appx-for-all-users

[cheema-corellian]

For me, the simplest option was to use scoop package manager to install the "windows-terminal" package. It takes care of everything for you and installs the latest windows terminal and any of its dependencies.

You can get scoop from: https://scoop.sh/

[SkewelVsAll]

Windows Terminal on Scoop has its own problems, the WT on there always gives me an error on start-up saying that I'm missing a font whereas the MS Store variant does not.