That can cause the removal to not work, and later if you try to sysprep and capture the image, that can fail. Sometimes while building an image, the Windows Update agent can update the apps while you’re trying to remove them. It avoids potential issues with Windows Update. It’s a timing issue – your results may vary based on what happens in your specific task sequence. As a result, a script may fail to remove the app because it’s not there yet, and removing the provisioned app may not prevent the pending install from completing. So it’s possible that the task sequence starts removing apps while they are still being installed. All apps provisioned in the image install asynchronously on Windows 10 with the first logon. It avoids potential issues with the installation of provisioned apps. By removing the apps offline, the provisioned apps won’t install when the OS boots up for the first time, so the first logon is faster and there’s no need to remove the installed apps either.

Why would you want to remove apps offline? A couple of reasons: It’s designed to run inside a task sequence (although it could be run manually if needed), either while in Windows PE to remove apps offline, or in the new OS to remove apps online. But there’s more that can be done, especially since the list of apps is different for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (and potentially changes with each Windows 10 feature upgrade), and since apps can be removed offline as well as online.Īttached to this blog (below) is the next generation of that script, designed to dynamically determine the list of apps if you don’t specify a list yourself. That exact same approach works with Windows 10 as well. That showed how to remove the in-box modern apps from a Windows 8.1 installation. Posted a script on the Deployment Guys blog First published on TechNet on Nov 11, 2015

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