Is is possible to disable builtin apps with powershell?

[Spangle]

I can remove apps successfully from the deployment image by mounting it with DISM and using the Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage command.

 

Then i have an issue if someone wants an app reinstalling, there it no app to reinstall.

 

I can deploy an image including all built in apps and dissable the apps with Applocker but then my start menu dies and becomes unusable.*

 

Is there a powershell command (or other way) i could use to dissable the apps so should a user need them in the future they can be reactivated without a complete reinstall?

 

 

*Once the applocker GPO is applied it only seems to work for the user who greated it localy and exported it. All other users have an unresponsive greyed out start menu.

 

Build 1703 Education.

 

Dan

 

I thought 1703 was supposed to be enterprise ready!

[sted]

i feel your pain with greyed out 1703 start menu fwiw it seems to be related to cortana i rewrote a applocker policy but once the old one has been applied it dosent seem to ever be removable so needs a rebuild but shouldnt happen on new builds. there is a dvd image i believe on vlsc with just the apps so you can reinstall them but ive never tried i only remove the ones these days nobody has any need for and im wondering if ever thats worth the effort.

[Spangle]

Decided to remove the majority of apps from the build but leave the Store on there. That is then diabled by a GPO. This way we can enable it and reinstall any apps without a total rebuild should we have to.

 

Not an ideal solution but a workable one for now.