Error popup with PSADT running in silent mode

The Toolkit General Discussion
1

Hi all, we are experiencing an error popup for users when running PSADT in silent mode and are wondering how to suppress this popup.

[Pre-Installation] :: Error Record:

Message : Removal failed. Please contact your software vendor.

             Deployment DeStage operation with target volume C: on Package 
             Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer_7.2105.4012.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe from:   failed with error 0x80070002. 
             See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160 for help diagnosing app deployment issues.

InnerException :

FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.Remo
veAppxPackageCommand
ScriptStackTrace : at , C:\WINDOWS\ccmcache\1r\Deploy-Application.ps1: line 161
at , : line 1
at , : line 1

PositionMessage : At C:\WINDOWS\ccmcache\1r\Deploy-Application.ps1:161 char:37
+ $InstalledUserApp | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Pre-Installation] :: Display Dialog Box with message: Error Record:

Message : Removal failed. Please contact your software vendor.

             Deployment DeStage operation with target volume C: on Package 
             Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer_7.2105.4012.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe from:   failed with error 0x80070002. 
             See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160 for help diagnosing app deployment issues.

InnerException :

FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.Remo
veAppxPackageCommand
ScriptStackTrace : at , C:\WINDOWS\ccmcache\1r\Deploy-Application.ps1: line 161
at , : line 1
at , : line 1

PositionMessage : At C:\WINDOWS\ccmcache\1r\Deploy-Application.ps1:161 char:37
+ $InstalledUserApp | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2

Would the answer be to remark out the line “Show-DialogBox -Text $mainErrorMessage -Icon ‘Stop’” line in the “##* END SCRIPT BODY” section? If so perhaps some logic should be added to not display a messagebox if running in silent mode.

3

Maybe but it seems like your line 161 is the issue.
If the following is your line 161:

$InstalledUserApp | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

I suspect the problem is what’s in $InstalledUserApp .
Is it empty? Is it good?
We can’t tell because you skimped on the logging.

See below on how to add it to the Remove-AppxPackage command:

As for determining what’s in $InstalledUserApp , you might be able to add an additional line before line 161 to log its contents. I’m assuming it’s an array so this should work:

Write-log "Contents of InstalledUserApp [$($InstalledUserApp | Out-string)]"

4

The root cause of the error is because an appx package is failing to be removed, I wanted to focus this post about a UI prompt coming up in silent mode which isn’t desired.

Here is the simplified PS code for the appx uninstall:
$ProvisionedAppName = ‘Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer’
Get-AppxPackage -Name $UserAppName -AllUsers
ForEach ($InstalledUserApp in $InstalledUserApps)
{$InstalledUserApp | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers}

This step is failing -
Message : Removal failed. Please contact your software vendor.

             Deployment DeStage operation with target volume C: on Package 
             Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer_7.2105.4012.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe from:   failed with error 0x80070002. 
             See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160 for help diagnosing app deployment issues.
5

Your MS Store is corrupt:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Remove-AppxPackage+error+0x80070002

6

It’s possible, although my primary concern was the popup when PSADT is being run silently. We have remarked out the line “Show-DialogBox -Text $mainErrorMessage -Icon ‘Stop’” line in the “##* END SCRIPT BODY” and it seems to have done the trick.

We have a separate app that installs per user the latest appx package, once that occurs the old one is removed correctly.

1 Like