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Copper Contributor

May 24, 2017

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Retaining Removed Pre-Provisioned AppX Packages Across Feature Updates

We are testing out using Servicing Plans within ConfigMgr, and upon rolling our first 1703 Feauture Update, we have discovered that all the AppX packages we removed from our 1607 builds seemed to hav...

Nathan Mercer
May 31, 2017
After upgrading to Windows 10, v1703 in-box apps that were uninstalled by the user won't automatically reinstall as part of the Feature Update installation process. (Apps de-provisioned by IT administrators will still be reinstalled, this is expected to be addressed in the next Feature Update)

Todd Walker

Copper Contributor

May 30, 2017

I would also be interested in hearing what Microsoft has to say about this...

Nathan Mercer
Iron Contributor
May 31, 2017
After upgrading to Windows 10, v1703 in-box apps that were uninstalled by the user won't automatically reinstall as part of the Feature Update installation process. (Apps de-provisioned by IT administrators will still be reinstalled, this is expected to be addressed in the next Feature Update)
- Eddie Leonard
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 01, 2017
  Nathan,
  
  Thanks for the response. Glad it is being addressed. Have to say I'm surprised it wasn't addressed for enterprise customers first, or at least at the same time. I'm really glad we haven't rolled out to more users yet as this is a pain to clean up.
  - Nathan Mercer
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 02, 2017
    you don't need to wait. you could workaround this now by using a post install action from SetupConfig.ini or modifying the install.wim with Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2016/08/23/windows-10-1607-keeping-apps-from-coming-back-when-deploying-the-feature-update/