In Windows 10 1607 App-V and UE-V are built-in natively in the Operating System (Not in Pro) and no additional setup needs to be run anymore, this is awesome! Both App-V and UE-V can be enabled using a Group Policy or by using the following Powershell commands, Enable-Appv and Enable-UEV. In some scenarios especially for…
Category: Windows 10
Disable Welcome to Microsoft Edge page and default browser prompt in Windows 10 1607
Another post of mine on how to make Windows 10 1607 handle the way I like in an Enterprise is now live on the 4Sysops website. Many enterprises would like to control and remove such notifications because they can confuse users and trigger unnecessary help desk calls. At the time of this writing, no Edge setting…
Managing the Taskbar in Windows 10 using the new feature in 1607
I had to write a post on the new options we have in Windows 10 1607 and managing the items in the Taskbar, it is now live at 4Syops.com where I am one of the authors. It covers how to deploy a custom taskbar during OS deployment, Group Policy, Powershell script and some lessons I…
Removing/blocking the Connect app in Windows 10 1607
I have written posts both about how to uninstall builtin apps in Windows 10 using Powershell and how to block them with Applocker before so this is just a note that you will need to use Applocker once more. Now that Windows 10 1607 is here we have a new app called “Connect” which we…
Using Windows 10 build numbers as Global Condition in ConfigMgr
When deploying Windows 10 1607 the anniversary update for the first time I realized I need to be able to filter applications and also Task Sequence steps based on builds in the future. Why? Well I am lazy so I just copied my existing Windows 10 deployment Task Sequence and it failed when deploying applications…
Disabling Windows Defender what’s new in Windows 10 1607
Windows defender has become even better in the Windows 10 1607 release which is great! But it has also added a first-run dialog for each user that launches the Windows Defender UI. This is kind of annoying as it doesn’t check i the settings are already configured and a normal user doesn’t have permissions to…
Updating the builtin Onedrive client in Windows 10 1511 during OS deployment
When deploying Windows 10 1511 the builtin Onedrive client is now “old” and then it doesn’t support the same group policies as the new Onedrive Next Gen client does. Before we start some background information on the Onedrive client in Windows 10 1511. The onedrive client is installed in this location in the users profile…
Making the IE shortcut survive an in-place upgrade in Windows 10
I wrote a post on how to add an Internet Explorer shortcut to the Start Menu in Windows 10 which turned out not to be the easiest thing to do. The post can be found here: https://ccmexec.com/2015/09/customizing-the-windows-10-start-menu-and-add-ie-shortcut-during-osd/ When I started to upgrade Windows 10 1507 – 1511 I realized that the “Internet Explorer.lnk” file is…