When MS Office and LibreOffice Are Installed Users Are Prompted What To Open Files With

[Fazza]

As Microsoft Publisher is going to be End of Life soon we are no longer installing in our new images.  We have found LibreOffice to have the best alternative to Publisher, only issue with LibreOffice is you can only install ALL of it and not just the app you wanted.

 

When both MS Office and LibreOffice are installed users get prompted to select an app when trying to open any office files:

 

 

I've set a Group Policy to set the Open With settings but that hasn't done anything!

 

 

After doing a quick Google the new way of doing it is to deploy a .xml file by a group policy instead by creating a Default Associations Configuration File (XML).  'All' you're supposed to do is run a DISM command to export the current settings on a reference computer where you've set the default apps which you are then supposed to be able to use to deploy via a GPO to then set those associations.

 

Dism /Online /Export-DefaultAppAssociations:C:\path\to\your\file.xml

 

On my reference computer (a VM) I have set .docx files to open with Word but when I run the above command .docx etc. is not listed:

 

 

When I double-click on a .docx file it now opens in MS Word but as you can see it's not listed in the exported xml file!

 

All I want to happen is for all installed office products (Word, Excel and Access) to open the relevant files!