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curtisbuhler
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UEM capturing user settings questions

Hello,

I'm testing out UEM/appvolumes currently but I'm confused on an aspect of UEM.

1. I've captured Mozilla + Chrome and settings that are made by the user are captured. Both of the applications are stored in the application stack the user mounts when logging in. I can't seem to fix a problem where both applications think they are running for the first time. Both of them continually ask "Would you like to make <> the default browser"?  However, I can change the home page and it remembers whatever is put in. Any idea I can go about fixing this?

2. I'm expecting that users will install other applications into the writable volumes. There's a very high chance that anything they install wont be an application I have profiled. Is UEM going to capture the settings for programs I haven't profiled?

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Pim999
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Hi,

The default browser problem you are describing is a Windows setting, not a browser setting. Windows keeps track of your default programs.

If you want to capture the default browser setting, create a new Config File and give it a name like 'default browser', and put the following content in there:

[IncludeRegistryTrees]

HKCU\Software\Classes\FirefoxHTML

HKCU\Software\Classes\FirefoxURL

HKCU\Software\Classes\.htm

HKCU\Software\Classes\.html

HKCU\Software\Classes\.shtml

HKCU\Software\Classes\.xht

HKCU\Software\Classes\.xhtml

HKCU\Software\Classes\ftp

HKCU\Software\Classes\http

HKCU\Software\Classes\https

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.html

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.shtml

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.xht

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.xhtml

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations

The second questions is a bit harder. UEM will only capture settings for applications that you have created a UEM config file for (with the profiler).

We're working on something to make this easier to manage.

Kind regards, Pim.

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Pim999
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Hi,

The default browser problem you are describing is a Windows setting, not a browser setting. Windows keeps track of your default programs.

If you want to capture the default browser setting, create a new Config File and give it a name like 'default browser', and put the following content in there:

[IncludeRegistryTrees]

HKCU\Software\Classes\FirefoxHTML

HKCU\Software\Classes\FirefoxURL

HKCU\Software\Classes\.htm

HKCU\Software\Classes\.html

HKCU\Software\Classes\.shtml

HKCU\Software\Classes\.xht

HKCU\Software\Classes\.xhtml

HKCU\Software\Classes\ftp

HKCU\Software\Classes\http

HKCU\Software\Classes\https

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.html

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.shtml

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.xht

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.xhtml

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations

The second questions is a bit harder. UEM will only capture settings for applications that you have created a UEM config file for (with the profiler).

We're working on something to make this easier to manage.

Kind regards, Pim.