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Updated May 26, C. The app is delivered to the device in any one of a number of different ways , and the installation of this app places its associated filesystem and Registry entries locally to that device. When a user logs on, they access the device-specific data, and any user-specific customizations are saved off into areas of the user profile. The UWP app is a different beastie. What this does, as many of you may know, is make first logon times very long which is a nightmare for those with non-persistent VDI or RDSH environments , but also bloats the user profile with what, to be perfectly honest, is a bunch of applications that users rarely, if ever, find any use for.

Whilst there may be a lot of plus points to UWP apps around security and portability, most administrators and consultants are just trying to achieve their Windows 10 deployments with a minimum of fuss, rather than reinvent the wheel while they are at it. In my experience, this is where most people are at, and the users — they just want to get on with their work.

So how can we remove the UWP apps from our image? The first option is to remove the UWP apps from a device either during the build in Audit Mode , or when the image is already running.

Also, as I will mention later, you can remove the apps in supported or unsupported ways. The second option is to remove the UWP apps from your actual ISO image that you are using for Windows 10 builds and then deploy from there. There are some UWP apps that you may need to keep in the image. Microsoft Edge is the first one people think of, but the main one that you probably actually may need is the Windows Calculator, which Microsoft saw fit to make into a UWP app.

So you need to identify the apps like Calculator which users may well need and which are now UWP apps. We will attack this in two ways — firstly I will show you how to remove as many as possible without breaking anything, and then I will show you a couple of ways in which you can hack the rest out but be warned, this is totally unsupported and may well give you issues when applying updates. The idea is though that whichever machine you perform this on would then become your base reference image for deployment.

Now, here is some nifty PowerShell that will allow you to pick which apps you want to remove from a list, by using the little-known to me anyway out-gridview cmdlet. Run this command from an elevated PowerShell prompt. Now what you need to do is simply highlight the apps you want to remove — remember, we are working on the provisioned apps from the online current image, so removing apps here will stop them being deployed to new users.

I normally get quite gung-ho here — I tend to leave the Store and Calculator behind as a rule. Not all of the apps you select will be successfully removed, some may be OS-dependent so will fail. Occasionally you may get a COM exception error and the process will stop. If this happens, run the command again and remove the packages individually until you find the errant one.

In this instance it was the Skype app which was throwing the error, for some reason. In some cases, trying after all the other apps have been removed may get rid of the one throwing the error. Next I will run the same style of PowerShell for the packages installed for the current user. Not entirely sure this step is required, but I like to be thorough. You will see there are many more app options here! Realistically, without digging into unsupported areas, this is as much as you can remove.

You can also dig even further into the guts of your Windows 10 image by using the PowerShell cmdlet below. If you want to remove any you can do this through the GUI as well you can run the following PowerShell once you have copied the name from the Get-WindowsCapability output.

You may have noticed something here — that, namely, we have a few more UWP apps than we were expecting! Mail, Calendar and Skype appear to have resurrected themselves!

This is to demonstrate how easy it is, with the odd names of UWP apps, to miss things out. What I have done is failed to successfully get rid of everything I was aiming for.

Windows Mail and Calendar both sit under the confusing name of microsoft. You will remember Skype gave us the COM exception error when trying to remove it earlier, but when I do it this time, it removes successfully.

Not sure why this happened — possibly just an anomalous error. But the lesson is — go back and check before we finish up — you may need to remove more apps here! This is as far as you can go without getting into dodgy territory. What if you really wanted to remove them? There are a couple of, and I need to stress this, probably completely unsupported ways of doing this….

This service controls the provisioning of the UWP apps to new users. So if you disable it, none of them will be deployed. Sounds good, right? Is there any way we could load them back in? Could we use PowerShell to just load the apps we want as the user logs in?

Hat tip to Jack Smith over at LiquidWare for pointing me to his script which is hosted here. When a user logs on with App Readiness disabled, we could maybe load the apps we want back in by using this bit of PowerShell? Cortana, windows. After booting, the system joins the domain and automatically logs in as a local administrator so that you can stage enrollment. After enrollment has been completed for the staging user, log out and then log in using the end user’s domain account.

Workspace ONE enrollment automatically re-assigns to the domain user. Be sure to enter the end user’s Active Directory credentials or the credentials that are synced into the Workspace ONE console. This ensures the commands in UEM can be successful. After importing to the console, export your PPKG in small chunks apps to ensure those work by themselves.

This is especially helpful if you have a large PPKG file with multiple applications. Some products reach out to internal servers during installation and might fail during offline installation. Application Files and Provisioning Packages 1. Select Custom. Customize the fields required. Select Export. Do not forget about AirLift App migration! Add applications to a ZIP file correctly.

For example, Microsoft Office ProPlus. When you are finished, open up the ZIP to make sure you have the right structure. How do I order the app installs similar to a Task Sequence?

Do not use quotes in the path for “File Exists” detection criteria When configuring the application install complete criteria, do not use quotes in the file path. If multiple admins are working on this process, it is recommended to enter notes in the Change Log section Ensuring that each admin adds notes in the Change Log with their name, date, and other pertinent information helps to track who is doing what.

Assign the app in Workspace ONE console to Auto to your smart groups With this PPKG export process, you are not required to assign and deploy automatically to a smart group, but it is still recommended to do this for the following benefits: If someone enrolls or goes through OOBE or AutoPilot on a system that does not come from the factory, they will still get the same apps.

If these are deployed as auto, they automatically come back on PC Refresh Because the PPKG has applied these same apps in an offline state, after the system comes online, SFD attempts to deploy but detects that they are already installed and moves on. Configuration File unattend. What is an unattend. Removing consumer apps via Windows 10 Enterprise key. How do I set a computer naming convention?

How to use synchronous commands time sync If the Azure join and Workspace ONE enrollment did not work, it might be because the system shipped with OOBE was not getting their times automatically synced. You can do this for any number of one-line commands including PowerShell scripts.

Are my credentials stored in the XML? Domain join tips and logs If you select the on-premises domain join, the following tips are recommended: Create a service account that is dedicated to doing the domain join and only give it permissions to do just that. You can specify the OU in the XML, which gives you more control over where these computer objects get created.

Do not forget to give permissions to that account on the OU as well. Test this account by manually joining a client to the domain to see if it works. The client uses djoin. How do I do a domain join for a system that is shipped directly to an end user at their home or somewhere off network This is a great question and one that many people ask.

So definitely check that out first if this is a big use case for you. If you still have to use on-premises AD, then this is technically still possible. First, you need to set up a VPN connection that automatically runs when the system is booted, to give line-of-site to your DCs to do the join.

Then you also have to have a VPN at login to fire so that the user can log in for the first time as well. While still technically possible, it is not a great solution and is very difficult to automate. You are better off spending time and resources on getting Azure AD and Windows Hello for Business setup first when you have those, your client behaves nearly identically to a domain-joined system. What if I have multiple AD domains? You have a few options for this. The XML itself can only support one domain.

The second option would be to create a script that automatically does the join itself, or has a GUI to pop up automatically in the administrator profile. In this case, you would configure the XML to call this script automatically in the First Logon Commands or Additional Synchronous Commands section, depending on how you want to deploy it.

PowerShell has a lot of options here and silent scripts can be created, as well as GUI-based ones that do dynamic joins. Tips and Tricks Drop Ship Offline 1. Change Log The following updates were made to this guide:. Feedback Your feedback is valuable.

Modal body text goes here. Automatic enrollment to MDM. Applies configurations on devices and ships them to your company or directly to end-users. Unboxes devices, boots device with Internet access, logs in and is ready to work from home or the office! Select the type of Active Directory to use. OOBE Configuration.

If No is selected and thus hidden from OOBE , select the language below to pre-configure the system to that locale. Show Region and Keyboard Settings. System Configuration. Enter the name of the domain you want the device to join. Enter the username that has Domain Join privileges. Enter the password for the Domain Join user.

Enter the organization unit for the AD. Enter the workgroup you want the device to join. Enter the registered owner for the device.

This will show up in system information. Enter the registered organization for the device. Select Yes to prevent consumer apps from appearing in Windows Enter the Windows 10 product key. Select Yes to create a local user account. Enter the username for creating an additional local user account. Enter the password for the local user account. Computer name will be randomized by default so that every system coming from the factory is unique.

You must enable the built-in administrator account to facilitate Workspace ONE enrollment. A one-time administrator logon is needed to enroll the device.

Auto admin logon has been turned on and the local administrator account is now required to be set up. Add commands that automatically run at the end of the Windows setup process but before any user logs in. Add commands that automatically run the first time a user logs in. Enter the username for the staging account. Enter your device services URL.

OOBE prompts for username creation as well as password. Ensure that the system is plugged into a LAN that has access to a domain controller before booting. Minor updates to the requirements section.

For example, you can configure the Windows product key if you are using KMS or MAK keys , time zone, organization and owner info, default language and region settings, input locales, etc. First of all, we need to do the most important thing: to tell Sysprep to copy all our customizations to the default user profile. Right-click on it and select Add Setting to Pass 4 specialize. Do not ask 3 security questions for your local account :.

If you configured everything correctly, a message should appear in the Messages console: No warning or errors. Now you can use your autounattend file to Sysprep your Windows 10 image. Run the elevated command prompt, and execute the following command replace the path to autounattend. This allows you to safely deploy this reference Windows 10 image on another workstation or laptop.

After executing the command, the computer will shut down. After shutting down your computer, you can capture a customized Windows 10 image using MDT. Below we will consider the DISM option. In previous versions of Windows, the ImageX tool could be used to capture and deploy an image. Boot the computer with the Windows reference image into Windows PE.

In the command window that opens, type Diskpart command. Use the list vol command to identify the drive letters. In our example, the installed Windows image is located on drive D. Copy the wim Image file from a local disk. Thanks for amazing detailed information. I have created my own customized version of Windows thanks to you.

Thanks for a great tutorial — Windows 10 version was the last version I was able to successfully accomplish a Sysprepped image that deployed exactly the way I wanted it to. Since then I have been unsuccessful in even getting windows to prompt the user to enter the COA Product key.

With or without an unattend file, with or without entering and activating windows on initial setup, and with and without entering Audit mode on initial setup. I have tried almost every version since and none of them prompt the user for the COA Product key after running sysprep.

Is this a thing, or am I missing some vital information that is not written in any tutorials? Use unattend. If you are using different version than what the computer shipped with you have to specify the KMS key to get the correct version.

 
 

 

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Fix Windows 10 Calculator Missing or Disappeared: Windows 10 operating system comes with the latest version of Calculator which has replaced the classic Calculator. This new calculator has a clear user interface and several other features. There are programmers and scientific modes also available in this version of the Calculator app. Moreover, it also has a converter feature which supports length, energy, weight, angle, pressure, date, time and speed. This new Calculator works smoothly in Windows 10 , however, sometimes user reports the problem in launching Calculator app and encounter error.

If you are facing any issues while launching Calculator in Windows 10, we will discuss two methods for resolving this problem — resetting the app to its default setting and reinstalling the app.

You are recommended to use the first resetting method to check if it solves your problem. If you do not get success in your first step, then you can opt for the second method of uninstalling and installing the calculator app.

Make sure to create a restore point just in case something goes wrong. Note: You can also open Settings by using the Windows search bar. In the list of all apps, you need to locate the Calculator app. Click on it to expand it and then click on Advanced options. This will open Storage usage and App Reset page, from where you need to click on Reset option.

When the system prompts warning, you need to click on the Reset button again to confirm the changes. Once the process is done, you will notice a check sign on the screen. One thing that you need to understand that you cannot uninstall the Windows 10 in-built Calculator like other apps.

These in-built apps from the store cannot be uninstalled easily. You need to either use Windows PowerShell with admin access or any other third party software to uninstall these apps.

Type powershell in Windows Search bar then right-click on it and select Run as administrator. Type below-given command in the elevated Windows PowerShell box and hit Enter:. Now in the list, you need to locate Microsoft. Now you need to type below-given command to uninstall the Calculator app:. The easiest way to search for the Calculator app is in Windows Search. Search for Calculator app in Windows Search bar and then right-click on it and select Pin to taskbar option. Right-click on an empty area on the desktop then select New and then click on Shortcut.

Click on the Browse button then browse to the following location:. Now browse to the Calculator application calc. Once the calculator location is open, click on Next button to continue. Name the shortcut anything you like such as Calculator and click Finish. You should now be able to access the Calculator app from the desktop itself. System File Checker is a utility in Microsoft Windows that scans and replaces the corrupted file with a cached copy of files that is present in a compressed folder in the Windows.

To run SFC scan follow these steps. Open the Start menu or press the Windows key. Now from the right-window pane scroll down to the bottom and click on Windows Store Apps. From the left-hand side, menu click on Windows Update. Hopefully, the above methods will fix Windows 10 Calculator Missing or Disappeared issue. Most of the users reported that they get this problem resolved by using any one of the above-given methods. Usually, resetting Calculator app fixes the common errors of this app.

If the first method fails to fix Calculator missing problem , you can opt for the second method. If still, you are experiencing this problem, let me know the problem and error you are facing in the comment box. Sometimes depending on the device maintenance and operating system updates, solutions could be different. Therefore, you do not need to worry if the above methods do not help you to get this problem solved.

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I have sysprep an W10 Pro – I have first clean up the wim file with msmgtoolkit. I have delete all the apps except Calculator. replace.me › fix-windowscalculator-missing.