Category: Omnissa

Omnissa / VMware

Fixing the empty Windows 10 Start Menu in stateless VDI

I am regularly asked why the start menu in Windows 10 remains mostly empty and only presents certain built-in apps/shortcuts. Scenario The fix described in this blog post is applicable in the following situation of which I know, but may also be applicable in other situations. Windows 10 v1803 and v1809 (but maybe other branch versions as well) Stateless /...

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Managing File Type Associations (FTA) natively using Dynamic Environment Manager

Almost two years ago I created the blog post Export/Import File Type Associations (FTA) successfully using UEM that describes a custom implementation which makes it possible to import and export configured file type associations (FTA) in Windows 10 successfully using UEM (from now on referred to as DEM, Dynamic Environment Manager). A third-party tool called SetUserFTA was used in that...