Windows Store and roaming profiles

[richmackie]

Apologies if this has been posted before but I couldn't find anything similar. One of my schools are running Windows 10 Education 1703 build and users are having major problems with the store. A pupil will log on, attempt to log on to the store with their office 365 credentials to download Minecraft, and they'll see a generic error message saying it can't connect and to try again later. If I delete both their roaming profile from the server, and the local copy, the store will then let them sign in. Trouble is I'm having to do this for 20+ users every week.

 

I've read up on UE-V and I think that could be the way forward. Has anyone had success with this? Do store settings roam so users don't have to download an app every time they want to use it?

 

Cheers.

[sted]

i dont think roaming profiles are really a supported feature in windows 10 anymore. For minecraft edu you can download the installer and install it on pcs you need it on for all users (ive never been able to get this to work as anything other than a manual process and it seems to be more reliable if the files are installed from a local drive rather than unc path

[Arthur]

Microsoft are deprecating roaming profiles so I wouldn't bother with them personally.

 

Have you already set the SpecialRoamingOverrideAllowed registry value set to 1 via Group Policy? It might not fix your Minecraft issue but it should make the roaming profiles less problematic.

 

Are you still using Roaming User Profiles in your environment? Are you running Windows 10? Do your Start Menu Tiles keep disappearing or become unstable? Then, you have come to the right blog. I’m going to explain a new hotfix and registry key setting which was released in the 14 March 2017 CU that fixes just that.

 

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Per the Deploying Roaming User Profiles there is a new step to using Roaming User Profiles in Windows 10, which is Step 7. You need to enable the SpecialRoamingOverrideAllowed key for the Start menu to display and work correctly. I didn’t pick the name for the registry key, I just work here. Below are the steps mentioned in the hyperlink. It does state mandatory start menu layouts; however, if you are not using mandatory start menus, you can still test it out in a DEV environment and make sure it works for you.

 

Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649079(v=ws.11).aspx