Redirect start menu using UEM

[ahmad090]

Hi

how can we redirect windows 7 start menu using Vmware UEM ?

thanks In advance

[DEMdev]

Hi ahmad090,

You can redirect the Programs Menu:

Would that do the trick for you?

If not, I suggest to move this thread over to the VMware UEM forum, as you'll probably find more UEM users there than in this generic Horizon forum.

[ahmad090]

hi,

thanks but actually i want users to sync the same start menu.

example i want all users to sync from one folder to take start menu shotrcuts

[DEMdev]

Ah, I see. In that case you can either populate the "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu" folder of your master image, or use a UEM Files and Folders setting to dynamically add those shortcuts into each user's start menu (and optionally use a UEM Logon Task to first clean up the user's start menu folder).

[ahmad090]

thanks man

i'll try that hope it'll work.

[ahmad090]

Hello UEMdev​

do you have the command for Logon Task to first clean up the user's start menu folder ?

thanks,

[DEMdev · Accepted solution]

Hi ahmad090,

Be sure to set this to Before profile archive import, or you will delete the settings you just put in place with the Files and Folders setting

[ahmad090]

thanks man . i'll try it and inform you with the status.

[ahmad090]

hi,

the command to clear the start menu didn't work.i did exactly as you mentioned.

i tried to run the command from VM directly using programdata instead of appdata it worked , but when running it from uem its not

any ideas ??

[DEMdev]

Hi ahmad090,

The command I gave only removes the user's start menu items. Anything in ProgramData remains, of course; if you want to remove that, you will have to do so in your base image.

[ahmad090]

hi, but I it didn’t remove any start menu items ( only if I run it manually on vm)

i am using Windows 7

any ideas ?

[DEMdev]

Can you post a log file for the UEM agent, at log level DEBUG, covering a full session from logon till logoff?

[ahmad090]

hi,

attached a log from one user (logging :DEBUG).

appreciate your help

[ahmad090]

also, note that from a user desktop if i navigate to %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\ i don't find a start menu folder !! but if i navigate to programdata i fond the start menu folder.

maybe the path isn't right?

[DEMdev]

2018-07-26 13:43:14.615 [INFO ] Running pre-import task ('cmd.exe /C rd /S /Q "\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu"') ('clear start menu.xml')

There's a typo in your command, but that doesn't matter as it won't work anyway – a non-admin user can't delete items from C:\ProgramData.

That's why my example removes the user's own Start Menu in their AppData folder, and why I wrote that if you want to modify ProgramData you will have to do so in your base image.

[DEMdev]

C:\ProgramData contains the start menu items that are available to all users; %AppData%\Microsoft\etc contains the items that the user put their themselves.

[ahmad090]

hi,

i tried it with admin user it worked .

but in this case what i can do for normal users ?

also one thing the short cuts i imported appear when i open all programs not from start menu fist screen, where is the right path to import them so they are available once start menu is opened.

thanks.