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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/SomethingCleverISee on 2024-01-23 21:26:22+00:00.

A business I support has some “public” computers for their clients, who live in a residential facility. The clients have discovered they can install VPN apps via the Microsoft Store to bypass our content filtering.

I have opened local group policy editor, gone to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Store, and set “Turn off the store application” to “Enabled”

This has no effect, and the Store can still be opened and used to install apps. The policy does show as applied when running RSOP as the user. I have done it on two PCs and rebooted, but no effect.

Am I missing something? Is it no longer possible to disable the Microsoft Store application?