#Executing Powershell Script as Part of Vagrant Provisioning Write-Host 'Unable to find provisioned package: $App' Write-Host 'Removing Appx Provisioned Package: $App' Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename $ProvisionedPackage.PackageName Get-AppxPackage | Format-Wide -Property Name -Column 1 | Out-File '$ Run the following command to get the list of applications, save the output to a file and open it in notepad.

Use Windows Key + R, type powershell and press enter.

We are going to get this list by running the Get-AppxPackage powershell function, saving output to a file named ModernApps.txt that will be saved to the Windows temp directory and open it in notepad. The first step is to get the list of possible application to remove. Getting a List of Possible Applications to Remove

Add the vagrant provisioning configuration to run the script when you initially run vagrant up.

Update the script with the list of applications to remove.

Figure out which applications that you want to remove.

Luckily enough Ben Hunter, wrote a powershell script that we will be going through and setting up as part of the vagrant provisioning process. The base install of Windows has all of these programs installed with live tiles turned on that I don’t need. These applications are nice on a non-virtualized machine but on a virtual machine it just uses extra resources that aren’t needed.

When I am provisioning a new development virtual machine with vagrant, I do not need all of the Windows 8 modern applications such as bing maps, finance, skype, etc to be installed onto the virtual machine.

Windows 8 program list