Install applications on FirstLogon using WinGet

[abwv-82]

Now that WinGet is a default application, it would be nice if it was possible to paste the json output you get when you do a winget export -o wingetexport.json and have it installed upon FirstLogon.

Just to make it easy to quickly install the applications you actually want, after cleaning up in the bloat that you don't.

Cheers

[cschneegans]

The samples page has a script to run WinGet in the FirstLogon phase.

I am not a fan of WinGet, mainly because it is so hard to run from a script even in 24H2. It also appears that WinGet is not readily available on Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC despite being based on 24H2. Therefore, I would not call WinGet a “default application” at all.

That being said, you can adapt that script from the samples page to use the JSON output, like so:

if( [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version.Build -lt 26100 ) {
	'This script requires Windows 11 24H2 or later.' | Write-Warning;
	return;
}

$json = 'C:\Windows\Setup\Scripts\winget.json';
'<Insert contents of wingetexport.json here>' | Out-File -FilePath $json;

$timeout = [datetime]::Now.AddMinutes( 5 );
$exe = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\WindowsApps\winget.exe";

while( $true ) {
	if( $exe | Test-Path ) {
		& $exe import -i $json --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements;
		return;
	}
	if( [datetime]::Now -gt $timeout ) {
		'File {0} does not exist.' -f $exe | Write-Warning;
		return;
	}
	Start-Sleep -Seconds 1;
}