He had tried the simple stuff. Add-AppxPackage only worked for the current user. He needed —past, present, and future. The persistent kind. The kind that survives a student logging off and another logging on ten seconds later.
He didn’t stop there. He pushed the same command via Invoke-Command to all 142 lab PCs using a parallel loop. The machines hummed like a disturbed beehive. One by one, they reported back: Provisioning succeeded. install msixbundle powershell all users
Path found. Dependencies resolved. Provisioning complete. He had tried the simple stuff
Leo hated the “Notification.” You know the one. The little yellow banner that popped up on every single one of the 142 lab computers at Northwood High: “Pending restart. Your app will update overnight.” The persistent kind
Leo typed:
$bundlePath = "D:\Software\RoboDesign_v4.msixbundle" Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath $bundlePath -SkipLicense The cursor blinked. The hard drive on the controller chugged like a coffee grinder. For five seconds, the silence was terrifying.
When the first robotics club student walked in at 3:15 PM, she logged into a machine that had failed for three weeks. She blinked at the fresh icon.