Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

Ben Hunter — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:08:31 GMT

Hi Sam,

The machine needs to be joined after the image is deployed. You cannot Sysprep a domain joined machine.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

Sam — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:04:26 GMT

Ben,

I just want to make sure that the start screen customize only work if I joined the Windows 8 pro to the domain before running sysprep? Thanks

Sam

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

sccmjradmin — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:11:56 GMT

Thanks for the great KB. How do I quickly fix the admin user name and initial showing up in each and every user's office app personalize section? I installed the office under administrator login and capture the image. Users don't get prompt when open the office apps for the first time.

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

Ben Hunter — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:00:15 GMT

Hi ITGuy,

Unfortunately there is no way to customize the Start Screen post image deployment.

Here is an article that explains some of this behavior - support.microsoft.com/.../en-us

Thanks,

Ben

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

ITGuy — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:02:25 GMT

Hi,

I know we can achieve the customization of start screen tiles for apps which are already installed in the Image, but what i am looking is for the apps which are deployed after the Image is applied. For Ex: Office is installed in the deployment TS after the Image is applied, can in any way customize the tiles for these office apps after the deployment or am i asking for too much.

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

Ben Hunter — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:23:26 GMT

Hi Bo,

Is this a non-domain joined Windows 8 Pro machine? If so then this is expected.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

Dewitte Bo — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:59:49 GMT

Thanks for the how-to but when i use

the copyprofile method the start screen goes back to default.

the strange thing is that when i want to pin programs afterwards (those i wanted to be pinned

in the first place) Windows says they are already pinned. do you have any idea where it went wrong ?

Thanks

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

Ben Hunter — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:01:21 GMT

Hi Louie,

The script "de-provisions" the app from the computer and uninstalls it from the administrator profile so that you only need to run it once.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

Louie C. — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:30:38 GMT

Ben,

Thanks, this is great, but will I have to have the machine run that script every time a new user logs in to prevent it from installing those apps, or is there a way to prevent the initial "Installing apps..." stage of the initial login from running at all?

Thanks,

Louie

re: Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT

Ben Hunter — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:57:13 GMT

Hi Louie,

You can remove he apps using a script, we have a blog post on doing that here - blogs.technet.com/.../removing-built-in-applications-from-windows-8.aspx.

Thanks,

Ben