I decided to move away from customizing the start menu and it has been the best decision ever. I set a custom Layout through GPO without any pinned apps. Users can choose to pin an app but it doe...
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I decided to move away from customizing the start menu and it has been the best decision ever. I set a custom Layout through GPO without any pinned apps. Users can choose to pin an app but it doesn't always come back. Installed apps work fine but not UWP. It's not that the persistence does not work. I noticed sometimes the user gets to their desktop prior to the app being available hence causing the start menu pinned item to be missing. Nevertheless, because the layout has the classic look, users do not seem to be interested in pinning anything on it. Illusion works. Oh by the way the xml for the layout in 1803 doesn't seem to work on 1809. I am deploying both version simultaneous on two different environments.
I am planning on using SCCM to manage my Windows 10 persistent desktops. Not until I get everything the way I envision it I am not removing them off Windows 7. My recommendation is to do the same...
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I am planning on using SCCM to manage my Windows 10 persistent desktops. Not until I get everything the way I envision it I am not removing them off Windows 7. My recommendation is to do the same. Treat the full clones as desktops the same way you have your physicals. Try to deploy the user's applications through SCCM as well. Easier to reinstall if needed. One more thing I would suggest is to leverage a solution like FSLogix or App Volumes writable volumes to maintain end users applications that are not on SCCM and their AppData folder. I hear great things regarding FSlogix. Never used it myself. I have used writable volumes before and it sucked. I do not think it is worth the headache. I recommended VMware to redesign it using vhd disk instead rather than vmdk. That way it can live on a shared storage, less IOPs, easier to back up, and also easier on the login, etc... Last I checked they thought it was a good idea. We shall see.
So far I have been creating a new image. Just document what you did in one and repeat in the next version. Sometimes Microsoft really changes things to the point where a setting works fine in 170...
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So far I have been creating a new image. Just document what you did in one and repeat in the next version. Sometimes Microsoft really changes things to the point where a setting works fine in 1709 but refuse to work in 1803. You will have to keep that in mind.
My mandatory profile was a copy of default. I believe in Windows 10 you are only allowed to copy the default user profile. As I said in my previous comment. I ended up going back to using local...
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My mandatory profile was a copy of default. I believe in Windows 10 you are only allowed to copy the default user profile. As I said in my previous comment. I ended up going back to using local profile because it was much faster than mandatory. Could not tell why? But using local profile is less headache anyway so it was a win for me.
Update: So I went back to using local profile. I did manage to get both the mandatory profile and start menu working. However, I noticed I got better login time using the local profile after usin...
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Update: So I went back to using local profile. I did manage to get both the mandatory profile and start menu working. However, I noticed I got better login time using the local profile after using this script. It cleans up all the bloat in the default profile and speed things up a bit. Reducing the size of my default profile from 250MB to under 5MB. Reduced my login time from 2:15 to just 15 seconds. takeown /f c:\users\default\appdata\local\Microsoft\WindowsApps /r /a /d Y icacls c:\users\default\appdata\local\Microsoft\WindowsApps /grant Administrators:F /T /C /L get-childitem C:\Users\Default\AppData\LocalLow -force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force -recurse -confirm:$false} get-childitem C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows -exclude “Shell”,”WinX” -Force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force -recurse -confirm:$false} get-childitem C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft -exclude “Windows” -Force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force -recurse -confirm:$false} get-childitem C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local -exclude “Microsoft” -Force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force -recurse -confirm:$false} get-childitem C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows -exclude “Start Menu”,”SendTo” -Force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force -recurse -confirm:$false} get-childitem C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft -exclude “Windows” -Force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force -recurse -confirm:$false} get-childitem C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming -exclude “Microsoft” -Force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force -recurse -confirm:$false} Get-ChildItem c:\users\default -Filter “*.log*” -Force | Remove-Item -Force Get-ChildItem c:\users\default -Filter “*.blf*” -Force | Remove-Item -Force Get-ChildItem c:\users\default -Filter “*.REGTRANS-MS” -Force | Remove-Item -Force https://james-rankin.com/articles/creating-a-custom-default-profile-on-windows-10-v1803/
So I managed to work on my mandatory profile and got it working. I get as low as 15 seconds but start menu is broken. I am setting a custom layout for ends users. Not special. Just the layout...
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So I managed to work on my mandatory profile and got it working. I get as low as 15 seconds but start menu is broken. I am setting a custom layout for ends users. Not special. Just the layout in a classic style. Sometimes the layout is just empty without any folders or apps. Sometimes it works fine. Nothing changed. I can see now the "please wait for the user profile service" take less than a second but the "preparing your desktop" is long. I am sure it is because of the start menu. I am not personalizing the menu with UEM so I know it is not broken because UEM is doing something. Stay tuned. Mandatory profile guides Create mandatory user profiles (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs Creating a mandatory profile on Windows 10 1803 – JAMES-RANKIN.COM
I do have Logon Monitor enabled. I ran the Optimization tool for Windows 10 using the default template. I noticed some mentioned using the LogVSI to shave an additional 2-5 seconds. I was skeptic...
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I do have Logon Monitor enabled. I ran the Optimization tool for Windows 10 using the default template. I noticed some mentioned using the LogVSI to shave an additional 2-5 seconds. I was skeptical since it clearly stated to use it with great caution. I am pulling my hair here. I did everything using the VMware guide. I am going to look at mandatory profile again. I had it in Windows 7 and was hoping to ditch in for Windows 10. I can not think of anything else other than that. I am also going to take a look at Instant clones as well. My RDS farm is using both instant clones and mandatory profile. I don't believe there are any configurations issues in UEM since the same policies are being used in both RDS and Windows 10.
Has anyone successfully deployed 1803 linked clones in their environment. I have been having some serious login time issues and performance with 1803. Stuck on "Please wait for the user profile s...
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Has anyone successfully deployed 1803 linked clones in their environment. I have been having some serious login time issues and performance with 1803. Stuck on "Please wait for the user profile service." My expected logon time supposed to be 22-24 seconds using UEM when preparing the image but now in the middle of deployment I am getting 2 minutes logon time. I also have some RDS farms, Windows 2016, using the same UEM policies and they are login users in 15-20 seconds.
Hi, I am having some difficulties getting UEM to personalize Windows 1803 start menu. I have a custom layout. First time login, the layout is set properly for all users. Any subsequent logins...
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Hi, I am having some difficulties getting UEM to personalize Windows 1803 start menu. I have a custom layout. First time login, the layout is set properly for all users. Any subsequent logins the start menu layout is missing apps. It is the same exact apps. Removing UEM and the layout works fine. It is the organization custom layout; therefore, I must deploy it. Anyone had any luck with 1803 and higher.
I ended up doing it with [ExcludeFolderTrees] in Internet Explorer in Personalization I created a User Environment > Files and Folders I excluded <Favorites>/Folder I created that the short...
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I ended up doing it with [ExcludeFolderTrees] in Internet Explorer in Personalization I created a User Environment > Files and Folders I excluded <Favorites>/Folder I created that the shortcut in that folder. Anything that gets stored in that folder obviously will not be imported/exported.
Hi, I am stuck with a problem here. I am trying to figure how I can create a shortcut in C:\Users\%username%\Favorites and undo at log off I do not want to use Files and Folders option si...
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Hi, I am stuck with a problem here. I am trying to figure how I can create a shortcut in C:\Users\%username%\Favorites and undo at log off I do not want to use Files and Folders option since it doesn't have a undo at logoff option. Any ideas?
Is there a way to create a post logon task with UEM? I want to import all IE and Outlook configurations when the user is at the desktop but not during the logon process.
I noticed in the past I have to do a contextual screen saver policy and that was failing. Disable the screen saver when user is internal but enabled when external. Turns out it wasn't working bec...
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I noticed in the past I have to do a contextual screen saver policy and that was failing. Disable the screen saver when user is internal but enabled when external. Turns out it wasn't working because the vmware optimization tool adds some policies for screen savers and UEM does not override existing policies.
I would like to use UEM to launch an application when launching another application from View client. They sort of work together. I publish the main application but I can not seem to find a suita...
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I would like to use UEM to launch an application when launching another application from View client. They sort of work together. I publish the main application but I can not seem to find a suitable way to start the other since, from my research thus far, startup items from start menu "startup" does not execute when RDS is being used for app publishing since the shell is not fully initialized.
It's interesting you mentioned the search index starting and working for you. I can not get the search engine to start. I think there is an issue with the way they are attempting to handle the se...
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It's interesting you mentioned the search index starting and working for you. I can not get the search engine to start. I think there is an issue with the way they are attempting to handle the search index service.