One of the great new features in Windows 10 1809 is that Microsoft Edge now supports kiosk mode. It is extremely easy to configure and long awaited, so we don’t have to use Internet Explorer or Google Chrome for our kiosk computers anymore. Setting up Windows 10 1809 in kiosk mode using Intune is really easy…
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Windows 10 Upgrade/Servicing tools demoed at MMS 2018
My colleague Johan Schrewelius has put together a Windows 10 Upgrade Tools kit that is available for downloaded here: Onevinn – Applications (schrewelius.it) It contains two tools to assist with the upgrade to Windows 10 and Servicing of Windows 10. TSLaunch which is run as a Package/Program and is used to do pre-flight checks and…
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…
How to disable the Windows 10 1511 default printer feature
In Windows 10 1511 there is a new feature which is enabled by default, “Let Windows Manage my default printer“. This setting will make the last printer you used the default printer. Update: In Windows 10 1607 there is a new user group policy setting to turn this feature of called “Turn off Windows default printer…
Upgrading from Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Enterprise to Windows 10 Education
This has been a hot potato with Windows 10, the fact there is a new edition of Windows 10 and that everyone using the school agreement isn’t allowed to use the Enterprise version of the OS. The must use new Education version which has its own media. When Windows 10 1507(10240) was released it was…
Removing the Edge icon from the Taskbar during OSD
This one isn’t pretty but it does work just fine. One of the most common questions I get when we do Windows 10 projects are how to modify the taskbar and to be more specific remove the Edge icon. The configuration of the Taskbar is stored in a big blob in the registry so what…
Powershell script to copy favorites from IE to Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge is the new always up-to-date, ultrafast and modern browser in Windows 10 CBB It is not included in the Long-Term Servicing Build of Windows 10. Microsoft Edge doesn’t share favorites with IE, it has its own favorites store which is located here: %Userprofile%\appdata\local\packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\ac\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\favorites In Edge there is a built-in feature to copy favorites…