[1803, au] Powershell command to install App

[Badaz52]

Hi Everyone,

 

So when I built the 1803 image for our school I screwed up and removed the photos app. This has caused a lot of trouble, no surprise, so I am trying to roll it out via GPO. I have managed to obtain the appxbundle file and associated license and want to install these from a startup script on the workstations. I have this as my command which works when its run manually but doesn't seem to do anything as a startup script.

 

Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath ".appxbundle" –LicensePath "Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe.xml"

 

It says Applying Software Installation Policy when the computer is restarted but nothing happens.

 

Any ideas?

[Badaz52]

I resolved this, it turns out that you have to use DISM commands if you are running at startup via GPO otherwise it doesn't work. On a separate note I don't want this to run everytime as it slows down computer startup so I want to do an if folder exists statement which I can do with a batch file as follows:

@echo off

if exist "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2018.18011.15918.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe" goto end

Powershell.exe set-executionpolicy bypass "\\(networkshare)\Windows Photos\InstallPhotosDISM.ps1"

:end

 

This alone won't call the powershell applet but does anyone know how to make this whole command into a powershell script?

[itwasntme]

I resolved this, it turns out that you have to use DISM commands if you are running at startup via GPO otherwise it doesn't work. On a separate note I don't want this to run everytime as it slows down computer startup so I want to do an if folder exists statement which I can do with a batch file as follows:

@echo off

if exist "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2018.18011.15918.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe" goto end

Powershell.exe set-executionpolicy bypass "\\(networkshare)\Windows Photos\InstallPhotosDISM.ps1"

:end

 

This alone won't call the powershell applet but does anyone know how to make this whole command into a powershell script?

 

Something along the lines of;

if (-Not (test-path "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2018.18011.15918.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe")) { 
   Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath ".appxbundle" –LicensePath "Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8b bwe.xml" 
}

Edited September 26, 2018 by itwasntme

[MartinByard]

This should do the trick:

 

if(!(Test-Path "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2018.18  011.15918.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe")){
&"\\(networkshare)\Windows Photos\InstallPhotosDISM.ps1"
}

 

(Test-Path "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2018.18 011.15918.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe") returns true if the path exists, and false if it doesn't. The ! in front of it flips this so that it returns true if the path doesn't exist.

 

Then simply call your other script and run it using the &.

[Badaz52]

Thanks guys these both work well, I'm assuming that it doesn't need anything else to make it quit as if the folder is present it just stops right?

[itwasntme]

Correct

[Badaz52]

Legends cheers guys.