Friday, January 29, 2021

Remove Windows 10 Built-In Apps when creating MDT Image

Before you run the script it is good to understand what is AppxPackage and AppxProvisioned Package

AppX packages – Applications installed with the operating system

AppX provisioned packages – Applications installed for each new user to a windows image.

The two commands which are used in the scripts are 

1) Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage 

2) Remove-AppxPackage

The Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage cmdlet removes app packages (.appx) from a Windows image. App packages will not be installed when new user accounts are created. Packages will not be removed from existing user accounts. To remove app packages (.appx) that are not provisioned or to remove a package for a particular user only, use Remove-AppxPackage instead.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dism/remove-appxprovisionedpackage?view=win10-ps

In MDT, When we create a windows image, we make the changes in Audit Mode, which is the administrator account but when new user login for the first time after the deployment the user profile get copied from the Default Profile (Hidden by default).

Remove-Appx-ProvisionedPackage removes the packages from Default Profile so the new users will not see those packages when they log in.


Each windows version comes with a different list of Application. It's better to run the below commands and get the list.

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -online | select DisplayName

Get-AppxPackage | select Name


Once you get the list and decide what you want to remove, you can add it to the $AppList and the script will remove the Apps from the image.

Create a powershell script by copying the below and run it on the MDT image

$AppsList = "Microsoft.BingWeather",

"Microsoft.Getstarted",

"Microsoft.GetHelp",

"Microsoft.Messaging",

"Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer",

"Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub",

"Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection",

"Microsoft.MixedReality.Portal",

"Microsoft.People",

"Microsoft.Office.OneNote",

"Microsoft.ScreenSketch",

"Microsoft.Wallet",

"Microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps",

"Microsoft.WindowsAlarms",

"Microsoft.SkypeApp",

"Microsoft.ZuneVideo",

"Microsoft.ZuneMusic",

"Microsoft.YourPhone",

"Microsoft.XboxSpeechToTextOverlay",

"Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay",

"Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay",

"Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider",

"Microsoft.XboxApp",

"Microsoft.Xbox.TCUI",

"Microsoft.WindowsMaps"

ForEach ($App in $AppsList)

{

$Packages = Get-AppxPackage | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $App}

if ($Packages -ne $null)

{

"Removing Appx Package: $App"

foreach ($Package in $Packages) { Remove-AppxPackage -package $Package.PackageFullName }

}

else { "Unable to find package: $App" }

$ProvisionedPackage = Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -online | Where-Object {$_.displayName -eq $App}

if ($ProvisionedPackage -ne $null)

{

"Removing Appx Provisioned Package: $App"

remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename $ProvisionedPackage.PackageName

}

else { "Unable to find provisioned package: $App" }

}




Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Mapped Share Drive not showing all the files available for the User

In this case, User has got Finance Drive (F:\) Mapped on his computer and when he opens the F: Drive he can only see one folder

If you UNC to the Finance drive \\servername\sharedFolder\ User can see more than 100 folders available to him.

The permission was right, tried deleting the Drive using 'net use' command, and logged off and logged back.

The Drive Mapped fine but still showing only one folder.

When I right-click and select properties of F: Drive it was showing the File System as CSC-CACHE

I have Created a DWORD(32Bit) FormatDatabase under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc\Parametersset its value to 1

Restart the computer, and it will clear the MAP Drive Cache, and you will be able to see all the folder in the Mapped Drive

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