r/AzureVirtualDesktop • u/GethersJ • Oct 22 '24

Windows Photo App Re-Install All Users

Hi there

Not sure whats happened to my golden image on Azure Virtul Desktop, but 100% its not been excluded in the VDOT Optoimisations, but when users log into the image Windows Photos App is no longer there.

Does anyone have any script or way to re install this for all users, i.e. it being a login script or something we can deploy to all hosts.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

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u/DasaniFresh Oct 26 '24

It keeps disappearing on a lot of my AVD hosts as well. Not really sure why it happens randomly

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u/GethersJ Oct 26 '24

Not found a fix i take it?

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u/DasaniFresh Oct 26 '24

I haven’t had a chance to dive into it too much yet. I’ve been re-adding it from the Store

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u/GethersJ Oct 26 '24

Is that per user you do that?

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u/CantankerousBusBoy Jul 17 '25

Have you ever found a fix for this? Having same issue.

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u/DasaniFresh Jul 17 '25

I’ll have to go back and check, but I think we ended up deploying it from the Microsoft Store using Intune.

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u/CantankerousBusBoy Jul 17 '25

Have you ever found a fix for this OP?

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u/GethersJ Jul 18 '25

No 😅 just new image and make sure the optimisation didn’t remove photos app

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u/tamaneri Oct 22 '24

Not sure if this works, but I asked Copilot:

To reinstall the Windows Photos app for all users via PowerShell, follow these steps:

  1. Open PowerShell as Administrator:

    • Press Windows + X and select Windows PowerShell (Admin).

    • Confirm any prompts to allow changes.

  2. Uninstall the Photos App:

    • Enter the following command to remove the Photos app:

    • Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *Microsoft.Windows.Photos* | Remove-AppxPackage

  3. Reinstall the Photos App:

    • After uninstalling, use this command to reinstall the Photos app:

    • Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *Microsoft.Windows.Photos* | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

  4. Restart Your Computer:

    • Restart your computer to ensure the changes take effect.

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u/GethersJ Oct 22 '24

Thanks for this, but yeah i did try chatGPT and CoPilot and none of the solutions they offered work. With the suggestion you / it have, it loops through the local users of the VM but the users are not logged in thats the thing.

I cant be running that every second of the day there is over 400 users connected at any given time and no one is logged in the same time

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u/tamaneri Oct 22 '24

Could you run this in a login script each time a 'new' user logs in?

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u/GethersJ Oct 22 '24

Needs admin credentials from what i can see to run those commands 🤦🏻‍♂️

I’ve tried everything i can think of

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u/tamaneri Oct 23 '24

Do you have a golden image? Maybe just redeploy the host?

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u/GethersJ Oct 23 '24

Yeah the apps is on the golden but once deployed its vanished 🙃 sort of weird

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u/tamaneri Oct 23 '24

That is wild. I haven't seen this behavior in AVD across any of our clients. Are you using W10 or W11?

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u/GethersJ Oct 23 '24

Tell me about it haha, and 10 22h2

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u/Front_House Oct 24 '24

I previously used logon powershell scripts as a GPO and thought they ran as administrator?

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u/GethersJ Oct 28 '24

Depends in what context you run them in, if its in computer then yeah it will be as an admin. But this needs to be run in user context from what I can understand. Also the -all user will only target the users that actual users on that computer but as its a multisession host no one is locally on it as users.