Win10 LTSB build 1607 users can't change default apps

[mwyman]

Can't seem to get anything to stick with changes to default applications within Windows 10. Is there a registry setting or config file that anyone has used to work past this?

I couldn't find anything on this build of the OS (1607 LTSB) there were some issues with the newest update build but nothing listed for this one.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[techguy129]

This is what we do for LTSB default apps/ FTA

For Default apps:

On the gold image we configure default apps and export it to an .xml

dism /online /Export-DefaultAppAssociations:”%userprofile%\Desktop\NewDefaultAppAssociations.xml”

We use UEM to copy that file to a location on the VM.

In GPO we point File explorer to that location

User Defined Settings:

We go a step future and when a user logs off a powershell script creates a new .xml file and saves it in UEM profile. On logon, we copy that file to the same location as the one above (it overwrites the gold image xml) and that gets imported.