# Separate Store app access restrictions from automatic UWP updates

> Can Store browsing be restricted while managed UWP apps keep updating?

- Canonical URL: https://update.dsesecurity.com/updates/dse-20260909-439-separate-store-app-access-restrictions-from-automatic-uwp-updates/
- Publisher: Detection Systems & Engineering (DSE Security)
- Author: DSE Security Editorial Team
- Published: 2026-09-10T00:24:37+00:00
- Modified: 2026-09-10T02:04:57+00:00
- Last reviewed by DSE: 2026-09-09
- Resource type: Guide
- DSE priority: Information
- Topics: Business Continuity, IT
- Reading time: 2 minutes

## What you need to know

Can Store browsing be restricted while managed UWP apps keep updating?

## Potentially affected

Review this as a UWP Store policy decision, not a universal application-execution boundary. Record the exact effective Store settings and the managed apps whose update path must remain available.

## DSE recommendation

State separately whether the goal is limiting user browsing, limiting app acquisition, or controlling execution.

## Article

## Source facts

Microsoft documents separate controls for opening the Store app and for automatic UWP updates. Blocking the Store application does not stop Intune’s Store-app installation or automatic UWP updating when the automatic-update policy permits it. That Store-app restriction does not affect the winget command-line tool. UWP apps can keep updating after installation even without an Intune assignment. [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/app-management/deployment/add-microsoft-store).

## Applicability

Review this as a UWP Store policy decision, not a universal application-execution boundary. Record the exact effective Store settings and the managed apps whose update path must remain available.

## DSE recommendation

State separately whether the goal is limiting user browsing, limiting app acquisition, or controlling execution. Preserve the automatic-update path required by the approved apps while testing the intended user-facing restriction. Have the endpoint security owner review other installation routes rather than treating one Store setting as comprehensive application control. Keep any additional restrictions under their own tested policy.

## Verification

On a representative pilot, verify the intended Store user experience and an authorized Intune deployment. Observe an applicable UWP update and confirm the installed version afterward. Test relevant alternative acquisition paths separately and record their actual behavior. If the browsing restriction works but updates stop, reconcile the automatic-update policy before broadening the block. Retain both effective settings and workload results so acceptance covers maintenance as well as the visible Store interface.

## Official references

[Microsoft Learn: Add Microsoft Store Apps to Microsoft Intune](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/app-management/deployment/add-microsoft-store).

## Primary reference

- Name: Add Microsoft Store Apps to Microsoft Intune - Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn
- Authority: Microsoft Learn
- URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/app-management/deployment/add-microsoft-store
- Source publication date: Not stated by the source

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