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We use an enterprise version of Windows at work and I had to remove pre-installed candy crush and twitter apps from it :)

jimnotgym 9y ago
But you could have removed them from the whole domain using AD... As much as I hate to admit it, AD is the killer feature that keeps MS king of the enterprise
Someone1234 9y ago
You sys-prepped a copy of Windows 10 enterprise to install them via AppX provisioning and then uninstalled them after the fact? Why..? I read this complaint a lot, and while valid for "Pro," it is a little odd for Enterprise since at that scale you are likely provisioning your app store apps anyway. This sounds a little harsh, but the most likely cause of this issue is your SysAdmin not knowing how to manage Windows. If you don't provision the image at all, you'll wind up with a copy of Pro with a few more enterprise features. If you want to slim it down, you'll need to do so.
- redial 9y ago
  > If you don't provision the image at all, you'll wind up with a copy of Pro with a few more enterprise features. If you want to slim it down, you'll need to do so. Isn't that the complain? A serious enterprise version (and Pro version for that matter) should never include candy crush or ads in the first place. And it should not require every sysadmin in the world to disable them.
  - Someone1234 9y ago
    > A serious enterprise version (and Pro version for that matter) should never include candy crush or ads in the first place. They just took the default provisioning profile which is the same as a end user install of Pro. People had the same complaints about Windows Media Player, Solitaire, and even IE if you go far enough back. But the response now is the same as the response then: Provision Windows Enterprise how you want it, don't just use the defaults and then complain when that isn't to your tastes. I'm not thrilled that ANY version of Windows ships with Candy Crush, but removing it from Enterprise is far easier than retail since you're provisioning the OS anyway; in retail you're likely having to uninstall all of the tat one by one.
- robocat 9y ago
  From child: "They just took the default provisioning profile which is the same as a end user install of Pro". So the problem is that "Professional" should never include crapware and adverts. I don't mind being charged from Professional (in fact we always upgrade non-test Windows installs). I definitely mind having to treat a clean Windows Professional install like a cheap laptop install.

jimnotgym 9y ago

But you could have removed them from the whole domain using AD... As much as I hate to admit it, AD is the killer feature that keeps MS king of the enterprise

Someone1234 9y ago

You sys-prepped a copy of Windows 10 enterprise to install them via AppX provisioning and then uninstalled them after the fact? Why..? I read this complaint a lot, and while valid for "Pro," it is a little odd for Enterprise since at that scale you are likely provisioning your app store apps anyway. This sounds a little harsh, but the most likely cause of this issue is your SysAdmin not knowing how to manage Windows. If you don't provision the image at all, you'll wind up with a copy of Pro with a few more enterprise features. If you want to slim it down, you'll need to do so.

redial 9y ago
> If you don't provision the image at all, you'll wind up with a copy of Pro with a few more enterprise features. If you want to slim it down, you'll need to do so. Isn't that the complain? A serious enterprise version (and Pro version for that matter) should never include candy crush or ads in the first place. And it should not require every sysadmin in the world to disable them.
- Someone1234 9y ago
  > A serious enterprise version (and Pro version for that matter) should never include candy crush or ads in the first place. They just took the default provisioning profile which is the same as a end user install of Pro. People had the same complaints about Windows Media Player, Solitaire, and even IE if you go far enough back. But the response now is the same as the response then: Provision Windows Enterprise how you want it, don't just use the defaults and then complain when that isn't to your tastes. I'm not thrilled that ANY version of Windows ships with Candy Crush, but removing it from Enterprise is far easier than retail since you're provisioning the OS anyway; in retail you're likely having to uninstall all of the tat one by one.
robocat 9y ago
From child: "They just took the default provisioning profile which is the same as a end user install of Pro". So the problem is that "Professional" should never include crapware and adverts. I don't mind being charged from Professional (in fact we always upgrade non-test Windows installs). I definitely mind having to treat a clean Windows Professional install like a cheap laptop install.