Sooner or later they will have to anyway, because Linux is gaining into the market more and more.
CREATE START MENU SHORTCUT WINDOWS WINDOWS 10
M$ should not repeat their mistakes again like they made with GFWL (and more of their products) otherwise their precious Windows Store will end up the same.įor companies they should make it as easy as possible to manage this part of Windows 10 for free and then possible release a Windows 10 Community Edition, which really only runs MS approved apps and Appx packages. Or by changing their terms after the upgrade. Maybe they realized that you really can’t sell a product as Professional version that has less management options than the Education or Enterprise version. In general it’s wiser to stay as much as possible out the GPO swamp anyway and use it very minimalistic. Like some organisations use WPKG without any GPO’s applied (BYOD). And also check if the registry tweak can be applied on Windows 10 Home editions too. Now next time I will check the registry location to make sure if the Start Layout policy effectively had been applied to the system by GPO. That actually would be a giant black hole in terms of system security (start menu hijacking with read only xml and some kind of nasty injector e.g.)!
CREATE START MENU SHORTCUT WINDOWS MANUAL
Although indeed the (different) GPO filtering in Windows 10 Pro could block those kind of policies defined through GPO, the common DLL’s of the Windows 10 system in general could still be able to pick up these manual registry changes. I didn’t have the time yet to check out the direct registry tweak method, but if the start menu layout really doesn’t work through GPO on Windows 10 Pro that option looks very promising to me. Even after gpupdate, checking if the policy had been applied with GP result and rebooting several times to really make sure all I got was a locked start menu with all current items still residing inside.Ĭould it be that the registry tweak method always works and using GPMC/GPO doesn’t? But some other policies do mention they only work with Windows 10 Enterprise/Education.Ī few days ago I tried to implement an empty layout at customers site through GPMC for a bunch of to Windows upgraded workstations, but except for locking up the startmenu the empty template itself wasn’t applied to the workstations. All tiles were still there. They don’t eplicitly state it’s meant for Windows 10 Enterprise only. That description is very general and has a wide scope. It either should work or not.Ĭonform the policy description it can be applied to Windows 10 Server (2016), Windows 10. So pinning to taskbar can be disabled by design.Īnd unless using a DFS solution, wouldn’t %LOGONSERVER%\NETLOGON\ or %USERDNSDOMAIN%\NETLOGON\ be the perfect place to store those start menu layout templates?Īll domain authenticated users (and SYSTEM) can read there and the same layout(s) will replicate across all login domain controllers in the organization and so be available at all user login places/locations. You can of course pin any existing shortcut to the start menu, but very recently I discovered that some shortcuts just can’t be pinned to the taskbar depending on the application. To make this process more clear and easy you can always start with an empty one to gather the XML connected with shortcut piece in detail.įYI. For any other kind of shortcut, just pin it to the start menu by right clicking, then export the start menu layout and look up the pinned shortcut in the above location. Just test it out and of course apply the policies in the right order. in order to make DesktopApplicationID=”F:\” work you will need to create a shortcut with target set as F:\ below path %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. Same as the start layout policy done by using the Group Policy Editor and best together with the needed drive mappings policies (if you’re not applying them through a GPO yet), because through GPO you can control the drive mapping names as well, which is also used as fast access name when pinning there. In order to be able to add a drive mappings to the start menu you will need to make shortcuts for them first. The solution for drive mappings in the start menu is fairly simple. I personally think it’s illegal practice as well as abuse of their dominant market position. I’m not surprised anymore after they pulled out the SBS plug a few years ago.
Again MS is (ab)using their market monopoly by harshly pushing SMB customers over to cloud solutions like InTune or Enterprise VL’s which both lead to increased monthly costs and of course more profits for M$, because recurring every year. Indeed too bad these policies won’t work with Windows 10 Pro.
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