{"id":1999,"date":"2021-11-26T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2021-11-26T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:24:09","slug":"disable-windows-store-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"Disable Windows Store in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Computer Config\\Policies\\Admin Templates\\Windows Components\\Windows Update\\Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet Locations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We set this to enable but, as it says, it has the knock on effect that no one can download apps from the Windows Store when enabled. But we enabled this because via the Windows Store you can bypass WSUS and install Windows updates. Which someone did back when an old build of Windows 10 was released that was bricking machines. Lucky the 3 users that had managed to install it, via the Windows Store, were OK but had to rebuild their machines after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/grouppolicymsstore.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/grouppolicymsstore.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/grouppolicymsstore.png 697w, https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/grouppolicymsstore-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Config\\Policies\\Admin Templates\\Windows Components\\Windows Update\\Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet Locations We set this to enable but, as it says, it has the knock on effect that no one can download apps from the Windows Store when enabled. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1999\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[12,268],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","category-uncategorized","tag-group-policy","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}