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Install the Surface app

In this article

Find out how to install the Surface app on your computer.

The Surface app is a lightweight Windows Store app that provides control of these Surface-specific settings and options:

  • Enable or disable the Windows button on the Surface device

  • Adjust the sensitivity of a Surface Pen

  • Customize Surface Pen button actions

  • Enable or disable Surface audio enhancements

The app also includes quick access to support documentation and to support information for your Surface device.

If your organization is preparing images that will be deployed to your Surface devices, you may want to include the Surface app (formerly called the Surface Hub) inside your images instead of requiring users to download and install the app from the Windows Store individually. The Surface app is available as a free download, packaged as a single .zip file, from the Surface tools for IT page on the Microsoft Download Center.

The SurfaceApp_xxxxxx.zip file contains the following files:

  • 5164dcd1aa5240c09c3d2108cfb773af_License1.xml - contains license information
  • 5164dcd1aa5240c09c3d2108cfb773af.appxbundle - Surface app

Note   Surface app version 10.0.342.0 and later require Windows 10 and will not install on Windows 8.1.

 

How to install the Surface app on your computer

Follows these steps to install the Surface app on your computer and make it available for the existing user and any user accounts created thereafter:

  1. Download the SurfaceApp_xxxxxx.zip file.

  2. Extract the contents of the SurfaceApp_xxxxxx.zip file into the temporary file folder, C:\Temp.

  3. Begin an elevated PowerShell session. Note   If you don't run PowerShell as an administrator, the session won't have the required permissions to install the app.

     

  4. In the elevated PowerShell session, copy and paste the following command: 

    Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath C:\Temp\5164dcd1aa5240c09c3d2108cfb773af.appxbundle -LicensePath C:\Temp\5164dcd1aa5240c09c3d2108cfb773af_License1.xml

  5. Delete the extracted files from the C:\Temp folder, where the installation files were temporarily stored.

The Surface app will now be available on your current Windows computer. You can then proceed to customize your computer or begin to capture an image of that computer. For more information about capturing an image, see Deploy Surface.

How to install the Surface app as part of an MDT deployment share

The following procedure uses the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to inject the Surface app. The application is provisioned automatically by MDT during deployment and thus you can use this process with existing images.

  1. Download the SurfaceApp_xxxxxx.zip file.

  2. Extract the contents of the SurfaceApp_xxxxxx.zip file into an accessible location so you can import them into the MDT deployment share in the next step.

  3. Using the New Application Wizard in the MDT Deployment Workbench, import the extracted files as a new Application with source files.

  4. On the Details page of the New Application Wizard, type Surface App in the Application Name field.

  5. On the Command Details page of the New Application Wizard:

    • Use the following command in the Command Line field:

      DISM.exe /Online /Add-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackagePath:5164dcd1aa5240c09c3d2108cfb773af.appxbundle /LicensePath:5164dcd1aa5240c09c3d2108cfb773af_License1.xml

    • Use the following location in the Working Directory field:

      %DEPLOYROOT%\Applications\Surface App

After deployment, the Surface app will be available for selection in the Applications step of the Windows Deployment Wizard. You can also install the application automatically by specifying the application in the deployment task sequence by following this process:

  1. Open your deployment task sequence in the MDT Deployment Workbench.
  2. Add a new Install Application task in the State Restore section of deployment.
  3. Select Install a single application and specify Surface App as the Application to be installed.

Related topics

Deploy a Windows 10 image using MDT 2013 Update 1

Sideload LOB apps in Windows 10