(Powershell) trying to delete unwanted apps in Windows 10

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Try this: https://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/23890

It worked for me.

There is also this analysis: https://github.com/jgstew/bigfix-content/blob/master/analyses/Modern%20Metro%20UWP%20Store%20Apps%20-%20Windows%20%26%20WinRT.bes

See here: Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps Inspector

I’m hoping to make it easier to create content to deal with the windows store apps to remove them from the current user and to remove them from the system so new users don’t get them.

There are 3 different locations to remove these modern windows apps. One is in staging that every new user that logs in gets. These can be removed from the SYSTEM account. The other is in the windows image with DISM, these can also be removed from the SYSTEM account. The other location is the current user’s currently installed apps. These cannot be removed using the SYSTEM account and must be removed as the current user unless it is possible to get around this using absolute paths or some other trickery that I have not been able to determine.

A policy action to remove it from current users will do so to all users eventually and clean up those that have the apps, but it is just as important to remove it from the other locations so new users don’t get them in the first place.

It definitely makes sense to remove these with an MDT task sequence but it certainly isn’t required. Anything that can be done with MDT should be possible with BigFix and vis versa. I prefer the flexibility that BigFix offers, but there are definite advantages to doing something before the first user logs on. (which BigFix can also do)

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