How can i successfully uninstall old version of microsoft store apps using powershell command in all user profiles

Question

I have been trying to deploy the below command through Sccm task sequence  to all the machine but unfortunately i still find the old version of the app still there.What am l m missing? This is one of the commands an using.

Remove-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.MPEG2VideoExtension_1.0.22661.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Answer 1

First, you should list the installed apps to identify the app names and their package names. Use the following command to list all installed apps:

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Select-Object Name, PackageFullName

After identifying the app and its package full name, you can use the Remove-AppxPackage command to uninstall it.Replace "PackageFullName" with the actual package name of the app you want to uninstall.

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq 'YourAppName' } | Remove-AppxPackage

Replace 'YourAppName' with the name of the app you want to uninstall. Repeat this step for each app you want to remove.

To uninstall these apps for all user profiles on the computer, you can use a ForEach loop to iterate through all user profiles and uninstall the app for each profile.

$AppPackageName = "YourAppPackageFullName"

$AllUserProfiles = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserProfile | Where-Object { $_.Special -eq $false }

foreach ($UserProfile in $AllUserProfiles) {
    $UserProfilePath = $UserProfile.LocalPath
    $UserProfileSID = $UserProfile.SID

    # Uninstall the app for the current user profile
    Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {
        Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -User $Using:UserProfileSID | Where-Object { $_.PackageFullName -eq $Using:AppPackageName } | Remove-AppxPackage
    }

    Write-Host "Uninstalled app for user profile: $UserProfilePath"
}

Replace "YourAppPackageFullName" with the package name of the app you want to uninstall.

Save the script to a .ps1 file and run it with administrative privileges.

Answer 2

I have these commands am using to remove the old versions of microsoft store app.If i run manually on the computer it is working but through sccm task sequence it failing.Is this command line correct in task sequence.

Answer 3

When I've had troubles as described above, I discovered that the provisioned package had already been removed. You can find out if this is true in your case by using the Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -online command in an administrative powershell on the machine in question. Here is a link to more command syntax options:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dism/get-appxprovisionedpackage?view=windowsserver2025-ps

It appears that if the provisioned package has been removed then removal from the appxpackge list is more difficult.