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Possible to disable Microsoft Store while allowing app updates?
Correct. If you have Enterprise or Education you can configure Group Policy to block the Store. If you block it in the USER policy, users will not be able to access the Store, but the computers will still have access to update apps. If you block it in the COMPUTER policy, the user nor the computer can access it and apps will not update.
This is useful information to update existing built-in apps between Windows 10 releases. We currently set Turn off Store application group policy under Computer Configuration. So if we set in group under User Configuration, will it update already provisioned UWP built-in apps (ex. Calculator) under existing user profiles? Also will it allow other UWP apps bundled with drivers (ex. Canon Office Printer Utility) to install in user profiles? Appreciate your help, just looking to see if you found any limitations. Also surprised it is not documented anywhere by Microsoft since it seems like a better workaround then using the Store for Business which is reportedly deprecated now. Eddie Leonard
Assuming you devices can connect to the Store through your firewalls/proxies, then yes it should update your Inbox apps and other apps from the Store. As for other apps not installed from the Store, I don't believe it will, but I'm not 100% sure there.
-Eddie