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Removing the Application Catalog Role within ConfigMgr was not as straight forward as i was hoping ! Like many SCCM admins historically the Application Catalog Web service Point and Website point were installed in order to deploy applications to Users.   However, this feature is now depreciated and User deployments can be deployed without this role as the client will query a management point instead for all deployments (user and device). ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/plan-design/changes/deprecated/removed-and-deprecated-cmfeatures ) I decided that this role should be removed as we were on 1810 Hotfix2 and colleagues had stated the transition was near seamless (see below regarding a reported BUG and quick fix to modify any Client setting). The procedure to remove the App Catalog role is straight forward: 1. Remove references to App Catalog website within Client Settings. 2. Remove the Roles within the SCCM console. See Adam Gross blog   In our case the remov...

Software Updates - Feature Upgrade - Windows 10 Software updates within an Enterprise organisation has been fairly straight forward until you attempt to use it for Feature Upgrades of Windows 10.  SCCM is very reliable at delivering the updates (Rollups, Updates, Upgrades) and as i have previously proved is UWF aware in Windows 10. However, the Feature Upgrade does require a bit of prep work if you do not want the new Appx Applications installed as part of the Upgrade. Moving between the 1507-1703 branches each Feature upgrade would reinstall the Appx Applications that you previously removed. Microsoft has addressed this in the 1703 - 1709 feature upgrade and if you removed an application it will not come back.  However, if the new branch has a new application this will get installed. Uninstalled in-box apps no longer automatically reinstall Starting with Windows 10, version 1703, in-box apps that were uninstalled by the user won't automatically reinstall as part of the featur...