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I was wondering if anyone has had experience deploying Windows 8.x metro-style apps via Altiris/SMP?  Is it just a matter of pointing to a .ps1 file, or more complex than this?  Would appreciate any tips that you may have as I've never installed anything via Powershell before.  Thanks in advance!

Clint

I think a file copy followed by a powershell script should be fine. The cmdlet you're looking for is add-appxpackage

add-appxpackage C:\myMetroStyleApp.appx

I've notice that my visual studio folder has the powershell script Add-AppDevPackage.ps1, and googling around it seems that others use this. It's a very comprehensive script though, and not sure if this is overkill for your needs!

Kind Regards,
Ian./

Hi Clint,

Does this answer your question? Do you need anymore assistance?

Found out that even before doing the install of a 3rd-party app on Win 8.x, I'll need to set a GPO to allow this action.  Apparently best practice is to enable the "Allow all trusted apps to install" GPO, load the app via PowerShell, then disable the GPO.  Also appears that I have to set some execution policy as well.

Thinking maybe the easiest would be to put everything in a batch file but not sure how to detect when the metro-style app install is done before disabling the GPO.  Am I headed in the right direction or is there a better way of getting this done?