[23h2] Equivalent of StartMenu Folder redirection via Intune

[sraper]

In the good 'ole days we used to redirect all pupils StartMenu Folder to a single location.

 

Making it easy to a) lock down the Start Menu and b) only show the applications we wanted them to use and hide all the "rubbish".

 

now that we are moving to purely an Entra/AzureAD solution it seems that there is no way in Intune to do folder redirection (which make sense for Document, Pictures et al - as they just redirect into OneDrive) but for the StartMenu still need a way to have only a simplefied list showing under "all apps".

 

Have the pinned list working ok just when you click on "all app" there is soo much crap in there - I know there is no way to stop UWA/Modern apps from appearing but the traditional apps like Outlook, Cloud Drive Mapper ...

 

At the moment all I can think of doing is writing a "user" logon script that "resets" their start menu in "%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" either by a simple ROBOCOPY from somewhere accessible or a fancy script that just deletes everything and then copies specific files from the "%allusersprofile%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"

 

Surely there is a better way to do this?

[supportman]

I just don't think its that important any more. We removed all icons from student desktops and left the start menu by default.

 

All their apps are cloud based and we link them from a SharePoint student home page.

[sraper]

I know what your saying. Just there's a few apps on the start menu when you install Office365 (OneNote, Access, Outlook etc), Cloud Drive Mapper, Inkscape (who uses Inkview!) just wanted to tidy things up! But I just may bow the Inevitable (thanks Microsoft) and given in.

[whartomt01]

Di you ever get any further with this. I'm struggling to see an easy way to deploy a start menu / shortcuts or redirect a start menu.

[Oaktech]

We gave up too...

 

We did have a sort of solution with Set ACL preventing read access to certain areas of the allusers program list for students, but it wasn't super reliable so we gave up.