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Rik Pasman
Hi all,
I am trying to remove all tiles from the Windows Server 2016 start menu for every user who logs on to this server (RDS/Citrix host). I have done this in a similar way with Windows 10 Clients succesfully, but I now run into an issue with Windows Server 2016.
Steps I take are:
1. On a clean Windows Server 2016 machine, customize the start menu by removing all tiles, so only the "all apps" start menu is left.
2. Create the .xml file with Export-StartLayout
3. Apply the xml file with GPO User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates >Start Menu and Taskbar > Start Layout
This works for Windows 10 (using a Windows 10 machine for the .xml creation). But the .xml file without any tiles applied to Windows Server 2016 leaves me with some "default tiles" as: Server Manager, Event Viewer, File Explorer, Task Manager, Administrative Tools, Remote Desktop Manager.
When I create an .xml file with one tile, for example snipping tool, the .xml file is applied and showing only that one snipping tool tile. The other "default tiles" which are under a tile group named "Windows Server" are gone. But when the .xml file is configured without any tiles, I would expect it to not show any tiles, like it does on Windows 10.
Does anyone have experience with this? I found a lot of information on the internet about this, mostly about Windows 10, but nothing that describes this particular issue. Please help...
The Export-StartLayout command leaves me with this .xml file when I have removed all tiles from the start menu like desired.
<LayoutModificationTemplate Version="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification">
<LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth="6" />
<DefaultLayoutOverride>
<StartLayoutCollection>
<defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout" />
</StartLayoutCollection>
</DefaultLayoutOverride>
</LayoutModificationTemplate>
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I am trying to remove all tiles from the Windows Server 2016 start menu for every user who logs on to this server (RDS/Citrix host). I have done this in a similar way with Windows 10 Clients succesfully, but I now run into an issue with Windows Server 2016.
Steps I take are:
1. On a clean Windows Server 2016 machine, customize the start menu by removing all tiles, so only the "all apps" start menu is left.
2. Create the .xml file with Export-StartLayout
3. Apply the xml file with GPO User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates >Start Menu and Taskbar > Start Layout
This works for Windows 10 (using a Windows 10 machine for the .xml creation). But the .xml file without any tiles applied to Windows Server 2016 leaves me with some "default tiles" as: Server Manager, Event Viewer, File Explorer, Task Manager, Administrative Tools, Remote Desktop Manager.
When I create an .xml file with one tile, for example snipping tool, the .xml file is applied and showing only that one snipping tool tile. The other "default tiles" which are under a tile group named "Windows Server" are gone. But when the .xml file is configured without any tiles, I would expect it to not show any tiles, like it does on Windows 10.
Does anyone have experience with this? I found a lot of information on the internet about this, mostly about Windows 10, but nothing that describes this particular issue. Please help...
The Export-StartLayout command leaves me with this .xml file when I have removed all tiles from the start menu like desired.
<LayoutModificationTemplate Version="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification">
<LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth="6" />
<DefaultLayoutOverride>
<StartLayoutCollection>
<defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout" />
</StartLayoutCollection>
</DefaultLayoutOverride>
</LayoutModificationTemplate>
Continue reading...