Going onto the app’s page will give you a button that says ‘Get the app’. To add an app, under ‘Shop for my group’ you can search or click through options to find the app you’re after – I’ve chosen Microsoft To-Do for this example. You’ll need to sign in with an account that’s an Azure AD or Office 365 Global Administrator, but can then grant access to others. This is done online, Enterprise customers go to and education customers go to. The Microsoft Store will look pretty bare at this stage (I see the 5 apps in the screenshot below by default), so you’ll want to add or remove some apps.

This is enabled again in Group Policy, using the setting “ Only display the private store within the Microsoft Store app” again under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components. For this option (again just for Enterprise and Education, and you’ll need Office 365 or Azure AD), you can instead have a Private Store. You may also not want other services that can contribute to data leakage, or shadow IT type solutions that users decide to adopt.Īs long as you are running Windows 10 Enterprise or Education, you could completely disable the Microsoft Store functionality by either using Applocker to maintain a whitelist of allowed packaged apps, or using Group Policy to enable the “Turn off Store application” under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components.įor Windows 10 Pro and Home users, this won’t work so you’ll have to try other methods such as uninstalling Windows Store on each PC with the PowerShell command Get-AppxPackage *windowsstore* | Remove-AppxPackageĭisabling the Microsoft Store entirelybut you may find that there is a requirement to use a few of the Microsoft Store apps by your users. Having users a few clicks away from installing ‘Slotomainia’ or ‘Ninja World’ might not be what you want readily available on a business computer. If you’re managing a fleet of computers in a business, you may not want users being able to access everything in the Microsoft Store.

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