Windows 10 updates, sysprep & in-box apps

With Windows 8, Microsoft introduced Windows app packages built-in to Windows. e.g. Candy Crush, Xbox, Wallet, Bing Weather, etc. These apps can generate issues when building an image. Below are some in-depth articles from Microsoft, describing the issues and useful techniques for working around them.

• Sysprep fails after you remove or update Microsoft Store apps that include built-in Windows images
• 11/11/15 Removing Windows 10 in-box apps during a task sequence
• 11/23/15 Seeing extra apps? Turn them off.
• 12/31/15 Updated Remove Apps Script, and a Workaround
• 08/23/16 Windows 10 1607: Keeping apps from coming back when deploying the feature update
• 03/23/18 More on included Windows 10 apps
• 04/17/18 Cleaning up apps to keep Windows 10 sysprep happy
• 06/02/18 Yet another way to clean up in-box apps

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