[1703, cu] Successfully deploying Start Menus in Windows 10 v1703

[Patrick]

What's your method for creating the local profiles for use on a domain? I'm a little rusty with them, having really only working with roaming and mandatory.

[sparkeh]

What's your method for creating the local profiles for use on a domain? I'm a little rusty with them, having really only working with roaming and mandatory.

Just don't put anything in the 'profile path' box on the 'Profile' tab of a users record in AD. When the user logs on a local profile will be created.

[Patrick]

Thanks, my image has the "apps" still in place and they are stripped out at login, this is going to slow down logins on local profiles. Sigh.

[Homer]

Nice one @sparkeh

 

For some reason I'm having a proper nightmare with logon times - easily reaching 2m30s on first time logon for a user with minimal GPO & no profile. Subsequent logon is OK but after a reboot you're easily back up to a minute and reboots are bloody slow as well. Not sure if using the candy crusher script has done this so I am trying a bog standard install to see what happens.

 

All of your advice re. start menu is spot on though, it works a treat!

[snagrat]

Thanks, my image has the "apps" still in place and they are stripped out at login, this is going to slow down logins on local profiles. Sigh.

 

Strip the apps out at deployment.

 

Or worse case login as one admin to strip the apps then the rest of the users will not get the apps at future logins

[Patrick]

Thanks, i posted my PS script here for logon and someone said i should do it on a machine basis not as each user logs on. So many pitfalls with windows 10.

[snagrat]

Yes it should be done on a machine basis. If you are already doing this then future logins will not have the apps

[Patrick]

My PS script works for removing apps at logons, but what would i need to change to make it run as a machine startup script? I'm very new to PS< my code is:

 

 

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted$AppsList = "Microsoft.3DBuilder", "Microsoft.BingWeather", "Microsoft.XboxApp", "Microsoft.ZuneMusic", "Microsoft.SkypeApp", "Microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps", "Microsoft.windowscamera", "Microsoft.ZuneVideo" ForEach ($App in $AppsList){ $PackageFullName = (Get-AppxPackage $App).PackageFullName If ($PackageFullName) { Write-Host "Removing Package: $App" Remove-AppxPackage -Package $PackageFullName

 

[win]

You will need to add the script to the MDT image so when you roll out the image the apps are already gone.

[Patrick]

For deployed machines though, could this be run as a start up script? I tried, and it didn't work so i'm missing something.

[win]

If you run it as a start up script you will get slow logins, ideally it needs to be done at image creation. Take a look at this link:

 

https://www.scconfigmgr.com/2016/03/01/remove-built-in-apps-when-creating-a-windows-10-reference-image/

[Patrick]

I ran that script on my image and it removed Media player, which i want. I can't find media player in the app list to get it back. How odd.

[win]

Should be under 'windows accessories'. Otherwise you can give them VLC instead

[Arthur]

I ran that script on my image and it removed Media player, which I want. I can't find media player in the app list to get it back. How odd.

On line 82 of that script change this line...

 

$WhiteListOnDemand = "NetFX3|Tools.Graphics.DirectX|Tools.DeveloperMode.Core|Language|Browser.InternetExplorer"

 

to this...

 

$WhiteListOnDemand = "NetFX3|Tools.Graphics.DirectX|Tools.DeveloperMode.Core|Language|Browser.InternetExplorer[color="#FF0000"]|Media.WindowsMediaPlayer[/color]"

 

Windows Media Player won't get removed then.

 

As @win mentioned, VLC Media Player is better though.

Edited August 22, 2017 by Arthur

[Patrick]

Thanks very much for that! Any ideas how i can put Windows media player back after removing it? I pl;an on having VLC installed along side. I already miss windows 7. Hah!

[ass17]

If you have removed it from the WIM file, then I assume it is not possible, otherwise powershell using the "Get-AppxPackage -allusers | Select Name, {PackageFullName}" command then tun command "Add-AppxPackage -register "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\{PackageCodeName}\appxmanifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode"

 

{PackageCodeName} being what ever Media player is.....

Edited August 23, 2017 by ass17

[Patrick]

Thanks i'll give that a go!

[Arthur]

Any ideas how i can put Windows media player back after removing it?

If it is too late to start from scratch again with a brand new .wim then you will need to use the Add-WindowsCapability PowerShell cmdlet to add WMP back (since it was Remove-WindowsCapability that uninstalled it).

@ass17's script is unlikely to work because WMP isn't a UWP app.

 

If I find out the correct command I will post it later (currently replying on my phone).

[Patrick]

Yeah that's what i'm having trouble with! You legend!

[mavhc]

If it's too late to start from scratch you're doing windows 10 imaging wrong, because there's a new wim every 8 months, need to automate.

[LemonEntry]

If it's too late to start from scratch you're doing windows 10 imaging wrong, because there's a new wim every 8 months, need to automate.

I'm not modifying the WIM at all. All configuration is done in GPO and task sequence.

[ReadTheNetwork]

Hey all, not sure if it's been mentioned in this post. But you can get Windows start menu to work with roaming/mandatory (well mandatory - as that's what I'm using, and guessing it'll work with roaming).

You'll need to give users permissions to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DeviceAccess.

 

@gavinh

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/163160-w10-mandatory-profile-issues.html#post1397548

[Homer]

Quick one, has anybody got Edge off of the taskbar?

[LemonEntry]

Quick one, has anybody got Edge off of the taskbar?

 

 

 

Configure Windows 10 taskbar - Remove default apps and add your own

[Homer]

Thanks mate just what I was looking for!