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posted by martyb on Friday March 31 2017, @03:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the One-Less-Complication dept.

In an enterprise environment where I control the apps that I install for my users, what are the ramifications of removing the Windows store and all of its apps from my Windows 10 setups?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by nobu_the_bard on Friday March 31 2017, @02:05PM

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Friday March 31 2017, @02:05PM (#487082)

    Thanks for this post, I happened to be working on something to do precisely this as a coincidence. I ran these as PowerShell scripts.

    I noticed that this snippet doesn't remove the AllUsers version of the package though, only the local user's; AllUsers here seems to not do anything? (It still seems to require admin rights)

    Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.BingWeather | Remove-AppxPackage

    You can tell by trying this after running it, the first query will give results but the second won't.

    Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.BingWeather

    Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.BingWeather

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