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Christian Bacher

• March 14, 2017 18:29

Can we have a category "Apps", simliar to "Application" with all installed apps under Win8/10?

Including a uninstall option for single/all user and a full remove to prevent a reinstall?

 

Greetings

 

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  Stephen Valdinger

  • March 14, 2017 18:31

  Do you mean Metro tile apps?

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  Christian Bacher

  • March 14, 2017 18:49
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  All this apps you can see with poweshell:

  Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Select Name, PackageFullName

  For example: twitter, xbox, zune, minecraft, skype, officehub, 3dbuilder, solitair and so on.

  This installed software, but not visible under applications.

   

   

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  Stephen Valdinger

  • March 14, 2017 19:25

  I can see where this could be helpful. In the meantime if you are wanting to remove them, I would use rather a custom tool in Inventory, or a PDQ Deploy package if you have that product as well.

  Sort the AppXPackages you want to remove, and then loop through and pipe them to Remove-AppXPackage. You'll have to look at the help to see if -Confirm is a required parameter for the Remove cmdlet, as I'm not sure off the top of my head. but if it is a simple Remove-AppXPackage -Confirm:$false should do the trick nicely.

  Example:

  Get-AppXPackage | Where { $_.Name -match "Twitter"} | Remove-AppXPackage [confirm:$false]

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  Christian Bacher

  • March 14, 2017 20:15

  Thanks I know this remove option and already used it.

  I block the store apps with a GPO, but sometimes a app slips through, for example if a local user account is used and the GPO doesen't kick in, suddenly a new app appears.

  Creating a Report with unwanted apps and deploy a automatic uninstall would be nice.

   

   

   

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  Stephen Valdinger

  • March 14, 2017 20:17

  You're doing everything right it seems! We go so far as to block all the local accounts too except for the ones we set via GPO, so controlling the apps with GPO does the trick nicely for us. 

  I'd go ahead and move this over to a Feature Request, or I can do that for you if you would like.

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  Christian Bacher

  • March 14, 2017 20:37

  Oh wrong forum, i repost it at feature request. Thanks!

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  Stephen Valdinger

  • March 14, 2017 20:37

  You got it bud! 

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