Install the Windows 10 Store Post-ReImage

[scottpowers82]

Hello All!

 

I hope someone out there can help me with the current issue I am facing as I have been unable to find a solution and need some help.

 

In creating our Windows 10 image, I removed most of the built-in provisioned apps, including the Windows Store, as it was always more of a nuisance in Windows 8/8.1 than anything else and nobody used it and we officially didn't have a reason to use it. So, I removed the Apps (and Store), sysprepped the image, captured it and have been deploying it (rather smoothly I might add) since then. However, now that we are on Windows 10 and the school year is 2 weeks in, I've been asked to find a way to get the Minecraft EDU version from the Windows Store onto several machines. However, I have been unable to find a way to restore the Store on any machine that has been imaged with that sysprepped image (so, namely, ALL of my machines). I have tried the directions from the following sites without success:

 

1. Windows Store app missing in Windows 10

2. How to Uninstall Windows 10’s Built-in Apps (and How to Reinstall Them)

3. Run DISM to repair Windows System Image in Windows 10

 

I have also tried copying the C:\Program Files\WindowsApps folder from my machine (which was actually installed by hand with Windows 10 so I could test things initially) that still contains the Store to another machine and running the commands from the websites listed above thinking that may do the trick as well, but still haven't had any success.

 

Other sites I have researched have suggested "upgrading" the machine from Windows 10 to Windows 10 using the Windows Media Creation Tool. However, that is not really an option as I may have to potentially do this to hundreds of machines. I would like to find a way that I can push this out either via SCCM or some kind of script whether it uses PowerShell or VBS if need be (PowerShell preferably though as I hate VBS!).

 

Either way, I would just like to find some way to make this work even if just for a few machines to get me by without haveing to "upgrade" the machine over itself.

 

I'm running out of options here and running out of ideas and could really use some help with this one.

 

Anyone out there have any ideas?

 

Thanks,

 

Scott

[Arthur]

Anyone out there have any ideas?

Download the offline licensed version of the app through the Windows Store for Business and then deploy through SCCM?

 

http://gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/configmgr-current-branch-deploy-offline.html

[brucer]

Download the offline licensed version of the app through the Windows Store for Business and then deploy through SCCM?

 

Gerry Hampson Device Management: ConfigMgr Current Branch - deploy offline apps from Windows Store for Business

 

 

Just looking at this, I'd like to get a deployable and configured solution for Bash in 1607? Currently I can only see how it is user executed download from the store. This takes a few minutes to provision when a few more if they want to use GCC etc.

[scottpowers82]

Sorry for the late response. Had some personal things come up and have been a bit distracted. Thanks Arthur for the great idea about the Windows Store for Business as I had not heard of that before. I looked into it and it turns out we already have an account! However, I am running into an issue downloading the offline version of an app (think it may be something with our firewall...can't get past the actual download button). Do you (or anyone else for that matter) know if the "online" version "requires" the Windows Store to also be installed? I downloaded the appx bundle for the online version and could not get it deployed for the life of me. I even tried installing it manually using both the included PowerShell install file as well as the included BAT file (that really just runs the PowerShell in the end) and I couldn't get it to install either way. My guess is that it may require the Windows Store to also be installed since it is the "online" version...

 

Anyone else run into that problem? Or have a different idea? For that matter, anyone else have an idea to deploy/install the Windows Store back onto a machine that has had the Store removed from an image and then sysprepped and deployed?

 

Thanks again all!

 

Scott

[free780]

I would install win 10 from an iso in a VM without removing any apps. Then some how find the windows store package. C:\program files\windows apps Then you can use this command let to install the package. A SCCM package with a script should be make this possible.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn376490.aspx

 

http://superuser.com/questions/949112/restore-microsoft-store-application-in-windows-10

Edited September 7, 2016 by free780