What is the easiest way to accomplish removing or disabling access to the OneNote app that comes pre-loaded with Win 8.1 through group policy? With Office 2013 we really don't want our students using the app since it has reduced functionality.

Sorry to hear your feedback on OneNote.

How to Disable Microsoft OneNote

Sorry for any confusion, but I am not trying to uninstall OneNote 2013.  We want to use OneNote 2013 (the office product) but NOT the OneNote APP that comes in Win 8.

Is there a way to mass-uninstall or disable it through group policy or SCCM?

Here is an article on how to use the command-line tools to remove Win10 "packages"

http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s-built-in-apps-and-how-to-reinstall-them/

Hi Manasquan,

Thank you for your question.

We could refer to the following link to uninstall OneNote:

Get-AppxPackage *onenote* | Remove-AppxPackage 

We could run this Powershell in GPO by the following link:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd367856(v=ws.10).aspx 

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know.

Best Regard,

Jim

That worked.  Just a follow-up, can that be run at startup under the system context or would be it need to be run for each user individually?