In Windows 10 1703 – Creators Update there is a new Group Policy setting that actually allows us to control what is visible in “Settings” for our users. This is useful for computers with a specific purpose for instance or other business requirements. The policy is called “Settings Page Visibility” it can be used to…
Category: Windows 10
Remove Mixed Reality portal in Windows 10 1703 and ”stuborn” apps
In previous versions of Windows 10, before 1703 built-in apps that couldn’t be uninstalled could still be blocked with Applocker so that they never got installed and it has worked great! With Windows 10 1703 there are two apps that I have identified as not being able to uninstall, it is not a Windows Capability…
Setting Google as the default search engine in MS Edge in 1703 using GPO
In Windows 10 1703 we have some new really great new Group Policy settings for Microsoft Edge, the most important making it possible to sync favorites between Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. We can also set the default search enginge to something else than Bing with group policies. To do this we first need to…
New Windows 10 Group Policies in Windows 10 1703
Windows 10 1703 is here! And is has some great new features as always, we are still waiting for the official .ADMX files and the documentation on what GPO’s are new and have changed. Some are changed like the Credential Guard setting where we have more options. I did a quick comparision so there are…
UE-V Windows 10 1607 Powershell and UE-V Template share
To follow up on my post earlier this week about how to enable UE-V during OSD and get it to sync Internet Explorer favorites I will cover UE-V templates Powershell and a template share. In UE-V we can define a central template share where we can drop a UE-V template and the clients will automatically…
Synchronizing IE Favorites with UE-V in Windows 1607
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…
MBAM TPM Password Hash and Windows 10 1607
In Windows 10 1607 the TPM Password Hash is no longer accessible from within windows. This is design change to increase the Security in windows 10 which you can read more about here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/keep-secure/change-the-tpm-owner-password Quote: “Starting with Windows 10, version 1607, Windows will not retain the TPM owner password when provisioning the TPM. The password…
Dot3Svc does not load using WinPE/ADK 1607
There seems to be a bug in the Windows 10 1607 ADK when trying to load the components needed to for instance deploy a machine when using 802.1x in your network. The service fails to load with System Error 126 as shown in the screenshot below. There are some comments about it on forums and…