When I click the magnifying glass button on my Windows Server 2016-Datacenter virtual machine, which I created in Azure Stack, to search for installed applications, I don’t find anything I installed. Whereas, regular Windows 10 you would see the applications show up. All I can find in the search are applications that were pre-installed or built into the image such as PowerShell 5.1 or Windows Media player. I have tried most of popular “resolutions” on Google search including following that I remember:
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Running the following code, although there are some errors that occur sometimes because of running background services that are in conflict:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml”}
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Rebuilding search index in “Indexing Options”.
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Starting/Restarting “Windows Search” service.
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Enable the policy User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator Account
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Restarting my VM and between following the steps above.
At this point it seems like Windows Server 2016 Datacenter just doesn’t have search support. But I don’t see any information indicating this. Or maybe there is some bug because it is a VM?
