Hello,
I´m building a Windows 8.1 (with Update 1)-Image for my Company and want to customize IE11. Everything works fine, beside two things:
1. In my IEAK-Package I add Google as search provider and set it to default. The IE-branding-package is applied during the building of the image. But when I log in the first time, IE comes up with Bing as default and Google as additional search provider. First I thought this has anything to do with SCCM installing the branding pack as LocalSystem during the task sequence, but with some testing, I found out, that Win 8.1 Update 1 (KB2919355) was my Problem! If I install my branding package to Windows 8.1 (without Update 1), Google is set as default search provider for accounts that already exist and for new accounts. When Update 1 is applied and my Branding pack runs after that, Google is set as default search provider for existing accounts only, but not for new accounts, they get Bing! It doesn´t matter if I do that as LocalSystem within a task sequence or as local admin, with Update 1 - Bing, without - Google! I also tried to set the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\DefaultScope-value in the "Default User" and imported the {xxxx...xxxxx}-Search Provider-Value for Google, but this seems to be overwritten by some first logon command. Is there any Win 8.1 or IEAK-Hotfix to correct this behaviour?
2. This one is AFAIK in every IEAK since IE8, but it´s annoying anyway: you select that no MS Defaults should be added, and that only items created by the Administrator should be deleted, in the "Browsing Options" of IEAK but (in the case of IE11) this one "Bing"-favorite resides there and says "Hello!" to every new user.
Problem 1 is the bigger one, but I´m glad about every kind of help and every answer!
Kind Regards, Chris