macOS 27: Windows apps no longer open from Parallels Dock/Application Menu

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MarcS37

Hi,

since updating my MacBook Pro to macOS 27, Windows applications no longer open from the Parallels Windows Applications folder in the macOS Dock.

Environment:
  • MacBook Pro M5
  • macOS 27
  • Parallels Desktop Pro 27.0.1 (58670)
  • Windows 11 Pro ARM64 25H2
When I click Excel, Word, Outlook, Explorer etc. from the Parallels Applications menu, macOS treats the entries as documents and shows that no application is assigned to open them.

The actual shared app wrappers under:
~/Applications (Parallels)/
still work correctly.

I also rebuilt:
~/Library/Parallels/Applications Menus
but the newly generated entries behave the same way.

Example:
file "Excel"
returns:
XML 1.0 document text, ASCII text
and:
kMDItemKind = "Dokument"

However, if I explicitly open the same stub with Parallels:
open -a "/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app" "$EXCEL"
Excel starts normally.

The same issue affects Windows desktop shortcuts mirrored to the Mac desktop.
So it looks like macOS 27 no longer associates the Parallels XML link stubs correctly with Parallels Desktop.

Has anyone else seen this with macOS 27?
Is this already known to Parallels?
 
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