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Synchronizing IE Favorites with UE-V in Windows 1607

Posted on February 22, 2017August 21, 2017 by Jörgen Nilsson

User Experience Virtualization(UE-V) is builtin Windows 10 1607 and no longer a standalone installer as it has been before. This is great as UE-V is a very powerful solution to Synchronize application settings like for instance Outlook signatures; IE favorites, Windows themes and so on.

When we design and build our new Windows 10 platform we should move away from legacy solutions and use new features to build a modern client.

I have had an issue that Internet Explorer favorites doesn’t sync in Windows 10 1607, and we tried a couple of workarounds but they never synced on the first logon for the user which is very annoying.

What we ended up with solving this is to configure the following to UE-V settings using Powershell: WaitforSyncOnApplicationStart and WaitForSyncOnLogon (it turns out that it is the waitforsynconlogon that actually solves it.)

After that the Internet Explorer favorites synchronizes as expected 🙂

The script we currently use to enable UE-V looks like this, can be run during OS deployment or as a package/program.

Enable-Uev

Set-uevconfiguration -computer -EnableWaitforSyncOnApplicationStart -enablewaitforsynconlogon

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\DesktopSettings2013.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\EaseOfAccessSettings2013.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftInternetExplorer2013.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftInternetExplorer2013Backup.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftNotepad.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftOffice2016Win32.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftOffice2016Win64.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftOutlook2016CAWin32.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftOutlook2016CAWin64.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftSkypeForBusiness2016Win32.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftSkypeForBusiness2016Win64.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\MicrosoftWordpad.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\NetworkPrinters.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\RoamingCredentialSettings.xml

Register-UevTemplate -LiteralPath $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\Microsoft\UEV\InboxTemplates\ThemeSettings2013.xml

I will write another post this week about the templates and how it works when you use a Template share which is also very interesting.

3 thoughts on “Synchronizing IE Favorites with UE-V in Windows 1607”

  1. Mike S says:
    March 29, 2017 at 10:47 pm

    I tried all day to get my IE favorites to sync with my existing UEV share and they would never import. I finally ran, Set-uevconfiguration -computer -EnableWaitforSyncOnApplicationStart -enablewaitforsynconlogon and they immediately sync’d once I closed and re-opened the app. Thank you but how frustrating.

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  2. Mike S says:
    March 29, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    And just to clarify for others, I had already enabled all the proper GPO’s, registered the templates and UEV was running as a service.

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  3. xavier er mendik says:
    June 14, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    Hi Jorgen

    Thanks for this. Just wondered if you knew whether any start settings can roam by default? I’m not talking shortcuts as I know they don’t but documentation suggests that start settings roam and I can’t figure out any that do in my testing. Any ideas?

    Xav

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My name is Jörgen Nilsson and I work as a Senior Consultant at Onevinn in Malmö, Sweden. This is my blog where I will share tips and stuff for my own and everyone elses use on Enterprise Mobility and Windows related topics.
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