Posts from September 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator on a Work Device

If you are a developer planning on using the Microsoft Flight Simulator APIs or whether you run some kind of aviation playground, running Microsoft Flight Simulator is going to be a must which may mean being able to run Microsoft Flight Simulator on a work device.

I’m a big aviation fan and while I don’t fly myself (the PPL is a dream for one day), simulations are the closest I’ll come for now. For anyone interested, the picture on this post is of me flying the Cessna 172 over Farnborough Airport, not too far from us in Basingstoke.

When I tried to install Microsoft Flight Simulator on a PC that was domain-joined as my Arcible work device, I couldn’t even get it installed. To download and install Microsoft Flight Simulator through the Xbox Store requires the new Xbox app for Windows 10. For this app to work, you need to be able to sign-in with your Xbox Live account and that was failing.

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