NB: There are some new UWP apps as part of Windows 1709 that simply don’t want to go anywhere. All new profiles will no longer receive these modern applications (except for Edge. This approach will remove the applications from the default user profile, however will not touch existing profiles already created, including the profile you are running the tool under. Why use the tool? 1) Its awesome 2) its supported by Citrix to do so. To address this issue somewhat, my starting point is to run the Citrix Optimizer Tool across your 170x image and select to remove Built-in Apps. To Microsofts credit, LTSB is their answer to the above frustrations, however many organisations don’t have access to LTSB, and some simply want the latest code base available. The default behaviour of these things to be provisioned within the user context, is somewhat invasive and frustrating when trying to build out a controlled and manageable environment. Modern Applications, AppX Packages, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps - whatever you want to call them, tend to often not be wanted or required in Enterprise VDI deployments. Also note, that I am limiting this to Windows 10 Enterprise capability, if you are on Windows 10 Pro then this stuff isn’t all that relevant, and you should go and carefully have a look at the Windows 10 decrapifier script Removing Modern Applications There is nothing ground breaking in this post, just a collection of configurations I use to try and strip windows back a little.
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