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.