How to document that Windows Store Apps are automatically updating

Question

_{Tuesday, November 28, 2017 10:39 AM}

Hi,

I have disabled the users acces to the Windows Store using a User policy.

How do I document that the Windows Store Apps installed on the computer is still updating.

Are there any log files where I can see  that the Apps are updated when new versions of the App become available in the Windows Store.

Or can I see it in the event logs?

Is there a way in PowerShell to get a list of apps in the store and compare the apps versions with the locally installed versions.

Thanks.

Thomas Forsmark Soerensen

All replies (3)

_{Wednesday, November 29, 2017 6:52 AM}

Hi Thomas,

Firstly, you can check if the Windows Store apps update from the Windows Store app UI:

1. Launch Windows Store.

2. Click **See more (...) **button.

3. Select Downloads and updates.

Then you will see all updated application and current version.

You can also check it from the Event Viewer path below:

Event Viewer\Applications and Services Logs\Microsoft\Windows\AppXDeployment-Server

Besides that, you can run the PowerShell command below to filter the Windows Store apps with their version.

Or export them to a txt file

However, all we could find is the current version number. And there is no way to find previous version number to do comparison.

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_{Tuesday, December 5, 2017 8:22 AM}

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

Yes I can see in the Windows Store UI that an application has an update, but If I have disabled the users access to the Windows Store, then the user cannot get til the Windows Store UI.

I was aware of the PowerShell commands, but that only gives me a list of the currently installed apps versions, and not a list of what versions of the same apps that are available in the Windows Store.

The event log though might give me information about which apps that have updated. I will look into that.

Thanks again for your time.

_{Wednesday, December 6, 2017 9:26 AM}

Hi Forsmark2,

I have to see, there is no command or any other UI to get a list that available version in Windows Store that same apps installed on your computer.

App available in Windows Store depend on the app's vendor, it's hard to list it.

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