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So far only Fargo DTC4500e card printers. Annoyingly while we are still enrolling. But most of our printers are MFDs through papercut, they are not affected.

Yesterday our computers installed KB5124008. Now they won't map any network printers, manually or through GPO. The drivers are pre-installed locally and the printers are mapped through GPO to a print server. When we try and map, we get an error stating a policy is in place preventing it. No GPO changes. Uninstalling the update fixes the issue. Anyone else being affected? I can't see anything from Microsoft to suggest this is an expected change?

Thank god, the Fusion admin installer was so much worse than the custom install method.

I agree, not ideal I don't like doing reg tweaks but as usual will probably take a while for it to be included as a policy.. if it ever is... (Looking at you start menu alignment)

I couldn't get the gpo to force list to work, so it seems setting reg key "AllAppsViewMode" to 2 in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Start" seems to set start menu to "list" mode, the user can set it back themselves. I'm just applying on logon through gp.

I think it used to save to WindowsApps, but now changed to AppData according to online?

Education Edition is a modified Bedrock version iirc, so it would make sense it saves the same way. That would explain the 2Gb file sizes, as Minecraft saves can get pretty large the more you explore.

We had this exact same problem, you can store them on a network if you use a symbolic link (not supported and a dodgy method) but the speed just makes it impossible to use. It works from an IT point of view, but for a user it's terrible. We ended up buying all the creative arts students a 1TB external drive.

How strange, not sure why it never worked for me? Didn't have many shortcuts so not an issue.

I had the issue from day 1 of Windows 11 testing, so not sure why it is only affecting you now.

Are the icons being sourced from the network? iirc Windows 11 doesn't allow shortcuts to have icons sourced from a network location anymore. I had some issues with this and ended up having to have a GPO that copies the shortcuts from the network on logon to the local drive. Think there was possibly a GPO to allow it to work again.

I tried this, and couldn't get it to work.

Trust me I have tried 😅 We don't have synced OneDrive, we're mostly on-prem still. As far as I understand the OneDrive apps requires C:\ drive access, which we don't allow. I think we also have a legacy GPO laying around blocking it for regular users.

I have tried to push for it but there isn't much buy in from the top.

Would love to configure Applocker but just don't have the resources. Last time I tried to restrict stuff down computing couldn't do their coding lessons. I also dont want staff or student even attempting to go into the store.

You can gut it out of Windows 11, like Windows 10. It is how we do it now rather than setup private store policies, still allows you to install apps from Intune. Was just hoping could get rid of the entire script. Guess I will just have to keep a small one for just the store.

Sadly doesn't have an option to remove the ms store.

Ah that's brilliant, we like to keep things as simple as possible for our invigilators. If an invigilator panel is created that would be really helpful.

Thanks I understand how to set the defaults at an IT level, but I was wondering if there was a way for invigilators to change this without giving them access to every setting? If invigilators can edit access arrangements per computer without full settings access, then it can potentially eliminate IT's involvement.

Does it allow the option of run once?

I haven't tested yet, but is there a way that invigilators can configure access arrangements without going into the admin panel?

Our remaining Win10 devices are on LTSC and we have Teams working. You need to install winget first as LTSC doesn't have it installed by default, then install using the MSIX installer.

Since moving to Windows 11, we can no longer click the network icon on the login screen. When it is clicked the screen goes black and comes back but the menu never opens. This worked fine on Windows 10. We haven't made any changes to any login screen policies since upgrading. This happens on both 24H2 & 25H2. According to Event Viewer LogonUI.exe errored with the exception code: 0xc0000409 Anyone else experienced this?

We use it. Is it ideal? No. Does it work. Yes. No issues so far. I just have it re-apply on logon. It does mean users cant customise it themselves, but we never have allowed that. Officially the correct way is using Intune, but I'd rather resist putting these sort of policies in Intune.

Might not be exactly what you want but I'll chime in. We have Unreal Engine in our environment but I opted to go for the Unreal Engine offline installer. You can apply for it as an Education institute for free. It completely strips out the Epic Games launcher, but has the draw back of no access to the store and some other online features. The only extra thing we have to do is add the firewall rules in the install script. Our students run the software fine on non-administrator accounts. No complaints so far. https://forms.unrealengine.com/s/edu-offline-request