Yesterday, I finally go round to trying to update the apps on my wife’s computer, and found that the Windows Phone app wouldn’t update, and returned the error
0x80073CFF (ERROR_INSTALL_POLICY_FAILURE)
Looking that up, it says that you need to have a developer license.
That’s a bit odd, because, that app isn’t being sideloaded, it’s being loaded from the store.
However, I hadn’t debugged on her machine for awhile, and as a result, it transpires that my developer license had expired. Acquiring a new license magically fixed the problem.
It appears that removing the license might also have fixed the job.
You can do that with powershell by using this command (source http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh974578.aspx)
C:\PS> Unregister-WindowsDeveloperLicense
Need to have this bumped - other google returns aren't helpful, this solved my mysterious inability to install from the Windows Store!
ReplyDelete11/22/2013
This fixed my issue as well.
ReplyDeleteAquiring a developer licence also solve my issue - the "People Calendar and Mail" app would not install properly in Windows 10 Technical Preview.
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