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I don't see a way to add a PWA from Edge, lame. Will continue to tell people to use Chrome>Menu>More tools>Add to Desktop
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The script shown in the article below might help (under Blocking Internet Access to prevent Microsoft Store App Updates)...

 

https://gal.vin/2018/05/07/building-windows-10-1803-reference-image-walkthrough

 

Thanks Arthur.

 

Am using Johan Arwidmark's store disable script as part of MDT. Am thinking when it goes out looking for Windows updates it's then pulling down the language pack.

 

https://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/615/Fixing-why-Sysprep-fails-in-Windows-10-due-to-Windows-Store-updates

 

Am not sure if I can point it at WSUS if am using configmgr for updates? does that work?

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If you redirect the AppData folder you will find it is no longer redirectable. Although there's been no official words from MS, this is probably now been deprecated :(
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If you redirect the AppData folder you will find it is no longer redirectable. Although there's been no official words from MS, this is probably now been deprecated :(

 

Interesting, I guess that's out the window then. Roaming profiles has already gone out as well so now what? UE-V doesn't include everything in AppData, or doesn't with my testing anyway.

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The new GPO updates have been released and there is a new one:

 

1803 - windowsstore.admx - Disable all apps from Microsoft Store

 

Disable turns off the launch of all apps from the Microsoft Store that came pre-installed or were downloaded. Apps will not be updated. Your Store will also be disabled. Enable turns all of it back on. This setting applies only to Enterprise and Education editions of Windows.

 

Does this mean we don't need to uninstall provisioned apps?

 

New GPO reference sheet can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56946

 

 

Edit: I guess some apps are needed such as photo viewer. Would be good if we could choose which ones are disabled.

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Does this mean we don't need to uninstall provisioned apps?

 

 

 

I guess that depends on your point of view. It sounds like they're just being disabled a la Applocker rather than removed so they will still go into the user's profile when they log on for the first time; they'll just be prevented from running them.

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You can enable the old school Windows Photo Viewer in the registry if that helps?

 

Ya, that's what we're doing at the moment.

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Reject change! Not really a very technology minded suggestion. All new Windows development by MS will be in UWP apps, so best to start working out how to use them
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We are not really rejecting change. We are happy to use UWP apps that are suitable in education, such as Photos and calculator, but not candy crush and Xbox. So i think stripping out the junk is the best option still.
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We are not really rejecting change. We are happy to use UWP apps that are suitable in education, such as Photos and calculator, but not candy crush and Xbox. So i think stripping out the junk is the best option still.

 

the xbox app has its uses tbh if you want to do screen captures it can actually be quite useful

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We don't have any use for that really at Primary school level, so i just strip it out. Yeah I have found Photos to be a little slow on older machines, i found the classic photo viewer to be much much faster at loading, but obviously a lot more limited.
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Upgraded one test machine to 1803 here and so far no major concerns. Performing well enough.

 

The only thing I changed was the the new People feature on the taskbar, can't see a use for that in our environment so updated my amdx files and turned that off.

 

Original poster mentioned something about sound controls moving into the settings app, seen no evidence of that here?

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Upgraded one test machine to 1803 here and so far no major concerns. Performing well enough.

 

The only thing I changed was the the new People feature on the taskbar, can't see a use for that in our environment so updated my amdx files and turned that off.

 

Original poster mentioned something about sound controls moving into the settings app, seen no evidence of that here?

the sound controls are a lot different. im running it on my home pc and every now and again (and it seems worse with 1803 to the point changing source to something directly plugged into the tv and leaving the pc on means no sound) it decides to change the output type to something the amp its plugged into dosent support so no sound until i change the settings which have moved

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Upgraded one test machine to 1803 here and so far no major concerns. Performing well enough.

 

The only thing I changed was the the new People feature on the taskbar, can't see a use for that in our environment so updated my amdx files and turned that off.

 

Original poster mentioned something about sound controls moving into the settings app, seen no evidence of that here?

 

I tried this but it doesn't appear to work for me. Is the setting:

 

User Configuration - Policies- Administrative Templates - Start Menu and Taskbar - Remove the people bar from taskbar *enabled* ?

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Original poster mentioned something about sound controls moving into the settings app, seen no evidence of that here?

Settings > System > Sound.

 

It's definitely there. :)

 

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I tried this but it doesn't appear to work for me. Is the setting:

 

User Configuration - Policies- Administrative Templates - Start Menu and Taskbar - Remove the people bar from taskbar *enabled* ?

 

Yup, that's the one, under user config and enabled, working for me!

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Settings > System > Sound.

 

It's definitely there. :)

 

 

Oh yes! There it is. Fairly neat I guess, as long as they haven't taken it away from anywhere else yet :p

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What do people do about Settings/Control panel for students? Currently I'm just blocking both, but want to allow stuff like Sound

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