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Trying to remove Windows 10 Mail app with Powershell in PDQ Deploy

Lazy Days

July 08, 2020 08:20

Hi Im trying to remove Windows 10 Mail app with Powershell in PDQ Deploy.

I have the following script that works 100% if I run it locally in a win 10 client.

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *windowscommunicationsapps* | Remove-AppxPackage

Here is the command line from the package

%systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\V1.0\PowerShell.exe -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass

But if I create a package to run the script in PDQ and push to a machine that has the mail app it does run and says successful but the app is still on the machine.

Tried running as local system and deploy user and no difference.

Am I doing something wrong ?

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Colby Bouma
July 08, 2020 16:50

I believe you need "-AllUsers" on Remove-AppxPackage as well. https://www.pdq.com/blog/removing-windows-10-apps-and-advertising/

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