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Windows 10 1703 removing Windows Mail UWP Shortcut from Taskbar

When recently undergoing a project in our organisation to update Windows 10 from 1607 to 1703 I came across an annoying issue where after the upgrade process Windows would add the Windows Mail UWP icon to the taskbar. Obviously in a corporate environment this is not a setup which is wanted. I read a bunch of stuff online but things would work fine when running manually, but then when trying to deploy through SCCM it would not work. In the end the only way I got it to work was with information thanks to the following link -  https://www.windows-noob.com/forums/topic/15538-problems-running-a-powershell-script-on-a-task-sequence/ So in summary the steps to fix it were: 1.) Create a powershell script on a network share with the following:            'Uninstall Microsoft Mail and Calendar'             Get-AppxPackage *communi* | Remove-AppxPackage 2.) Setup an SCCM package and choose to create a program with source ...