Customizing windows store apps – Microsoft Surface 3 User Manual

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5. When prompted to Replace or Skip Files, select Replace the files in the destination.
6. When the Destination Folder Access Denied dialog box appears, check the Do this for all current items

checkbox to provide administrator permission to copy files to the folder and click Continue.

7. Close File Explorer. After customization, the default user account picture is shown in Figure 4.14.

Figure 4.14: Customized User Account Picture.

Customizing Windows Store Apps

It is important to understand the relationship between the provisioned apps and installed apps. A provisioned app is

staged in the image and will be installed at the first logon for each user. An app is installed for a specific user. When a
user updates an app or installs an app from the Windows Store, it becomes installed only for that user. Therefore, there
becomes a mismatch between the user’s installed app and the staged provisioned app.

For example, when an app is uninstalled for a user, it will still be installed for any new users on that computer. This is

because the app is still provisioned. If an app is unprovisioned it will not be installed for new users on the computer, but
it will remain installed for any users who had already installed the app. When an app is installed from the Windows
Store, it is installed only for that individual user but not provisioned for new users.

Windows Store apps cannot be updated during the customization of a reference system. Updating these apps including

the built in apps such as Mail, Calendar, or News will cause Sysprep to fail. This is because when apps are updated, the
updated version is installed only for the user. This breaks the association with the provisioned app, which is available for
all users of the computer.

To completely remove a Windows Store app from the image, it must be removed for both the user (uninstalled) and the

computer (un-provisioned). This is because Windows Store apps can exist in a state where they are available for all users
of a computer even when they are not installed for a specific user, or they can exist for a specific user, but not all users
of the computer.

To begin, refer to Figure 4.15 to see what the Start Screen looks like before customization.

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