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Customize Windows 10 Start and taskbar with mobile device management (MDM)

Applies to

  • Windows 10

Looking for consumer information? Customize the Start menu

In Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Windows 10 Education, you can use a mobile device management (MDM) policy to deploy a customized Start and taskbar layout to users. No reimaging is required, and the layout can be updated simply by overwriting the .xml file that contains the layout. This enables you to customize Start layouts for different departments or organizations, with minimal management overhead.

Note

Support for applying a customized taskbar using MDM is added in Windows 10, version 1703.

Before you begin: Customize and export Start layout for desktop editions (also works for taskbar customization).

Warning

When a full Start layout is applied with this method, the users cannot pin, unpin, or uninstall apps from Start. Users can view and open all apps in the All Apps view, but they cannot pin any apps to Start. When a partial Start layout is applied, the contents of the specified tile groups cannot be changed, but users can move those groups, and can also create and customize their own groups.

How Start layout control works

Two features enable Start layout control:

  • The Export-StartLayout cmdlet in Windows PowerShell exports a description of the current Start layout in .xml file format.

    Note

    To import the layout of Start to a mounted Windows image, use the Import-StartLayout cmdlet.

  • In Microsoft Intune, you select the Start layout XML file and add it to a device configuration profile.

Create a policy for your customized Start layout

This example uses Microsoft Intune to configure an MDM policy that applies a customized Start layout. See the documentation for your MDM solution for help in applying the policy.

  1. In the Microsoft Azure portal, search for Intune or go to More services > Intune.

  2. Select Device configuration.

  3. Select Profiles.

  4. Select Create profile.

  5. Enter a friendly name for the profile.

  6. Select Windows 10 and later for the platform.

  7. Select **Device restrictions for the profile type.

  8. Select Start.

  9. In Start menu layout, browse to and select your Start layout XML File.

  10. Select OK twice, and then select Create.

  11. Assign the profile to a device group.

For other MDM solutions, you may need to use an OMA-URI setting for Start layout, based on the Policy configuration service provider (CSP). The OMA-URI setting is ./User/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Start/StartLayout.

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