Launch UWP 'system' app (cloud experience host)

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DeeG-4760 asked Sep 17, '20 DeeG-4760 commented Sep 21, '20

Launch UWP 'system' app (cloud experience host)

I have enabled the GPO to bring up the Windows Hello for Business enrollment at user logon and it works fine.

However we have a lot of remote workers that log on 'offline' then connect to the domain over VPN.

I'm looking for a way to invoke the Whfb enrollment process via a script which I will run post VPN connection. I'm struggling to find a way to launch the UWP app (CloudExperienceHost) that controls the enrollment.

I've found the related protocol (ms-cxh:) but it just launches a blank screen so assum it needs some arguments.

I've seen a few PS scripts that talk about launching from the shell: protocol but I can't get these to work as they are more focused on standard user apps

I should be possible 'in-session' as we get an occasional random toast notification which will kick off the process. Triggering that would be fine as well

windows-server-powershell windows-10-setup windows-group-policy

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Answer 1 · 2020-09-21T05:58:36.987Z

IanXue-MSFT answered Sep 21, '20 DeeG-4760 commented Sep 21, '20

Hi，

See if this works

 start shell:AppsFolder\YourAppFullName!App

You may refer to this link
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/20e5814b-5abc-4111-9eab-67f88512da3c/how-to-start-a-universal-windows-app-uwp-from-powershell-in-windows-10?forum=win10itprogeneral

Best Regards，
Ian
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DeeG-4760 · Sep 21, 2020 at 06:58 AM

Hi.

Unfortunately no. As CxH is a system app (c:\windows\systemapps) shell:appsfolder won't work

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