Windows 10 Taskbar GPO
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Worth noting based on this link.
The .xml file with the Start and taskbar layout must be located on shared network storage that is available to the users’ computers when they sign in and the users must have Read-only access to the file. If the file is not available when the first user signs in, Start and the taskbar are not customized during the session, but the user will be prevented from making changes to Start. On subsequent sign-ins, if the file is available at sign-in, the layout it contains will be applied to the user's Start and taskbar.
If these devices are mobile and leave the network when logged out of, it may cause issues as well. . ..
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@gjacobse said in Windows 10 Taskbar GPO:
MS Mail doesn't include all the features as MS Outlook
Which is why it's so much better. I have Outlook on my PC, but I always use Mail instead. It just works.
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On another note this really sounds like a way for HR to not do their jobs...
What is the motivating factor here to standardize the workspace of these workstations?
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@gjacobse said in Windows 10 Taskbar GPO:
Users using MAIL presents additional support issues and questions when they 'can't access the calendar' or GAL.
Okay, that makes sense with some more background. They need to be trained to use Outlook, not Mail. If they can't read the name of the application they are using....
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@dustinb3403 said in Windows 10 Taskbar GPO:
Worth noting based on this link.
The .xml file with the Start and taskbar layout must be located on shared network storage that is available to the users’ computers when they sign in and the users must have Read-only access to the file. If the file is not available when the first user signs in, Start and the taskbar are not customized during the session, but the user will be prevented from making changes to Start. On subsequent sign-ins, if the file is available at sign-in, the layout it contains will be applied to the user's Start and taskbar.
If these devices are mobile and leave the network when logged out of, it may cause issues as well. . ..
discussed - likely copy to / point to a local folder to address this very issue.
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@obsolesce said in Windows 10 Taskbar GPO:
@gjacobse said in Windows 10 Taskbar GPO:
Users using MAIL presents additional support issues and questions when they 'can't access the calendar' or GAL.
Okay, that makes sense with some more background. They need to be trained to use Outlook, not Mail. If they can't read the name of the application they are using....
I won't argue that.. but the users are: RNs, LPNs, Doctors and such. This isn't an 'office' environment. .. We explain that they are not using THEIR computer to use the EMR (RPD Session) - so Rebooting doesn't help - and yet,.. they'll restart their computer six times before they call us.
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@gjacobse I did. Reference:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/cq8uyj/windows_10_1903_sysprep_with_own_startlayoutxml/
I haven't done anything with it in eyars though and I know 20H2 changed the startlayout.xml configuration -
@jt1001001 said in Windows 10 Taskbar GPO:
@gjacobse I did. Reference:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/cq8uyj/windows_10_1903_sysprep_with_own_startlayoutxml/
I haven't done anything with it in eyars though and I know 20H2 changed the startlayout.xml configurationMakes sense that MS would change things between revisions... I would theorize that as long as your followed the process of
Export-StartLayout- it should still work. -
@gjacobse said in Windows 10 Taskbar GPO:
Export-StartLayout - it should still work
It does, just set a path to where you want the xml file to be saved.
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@dustinb3403 This only work for new user profiles and works okay .
