Hi guys,
I'm trying (desperately and without much success) to get a sort of default layout for the metro/edge UI.
I will begin by describing our setup at the moment. Windows 7 with redirected start menus and desktops for different user groups, roaming profiles and roaming app data redirected to data servers.
I've configured Windows 8 with group policies and have everything as I want it to be, and I can configure the layout of the edge UI with the file stored in the user profile. However, the start menu redirection seems to be causing problems.
The user will either get a selection of random Metro icons that are on our redirected start menu but not included on my layout, or they will instead get the entire start menu. Not only does this look hideous (and is not able to be changed by users) but it also results in a huge PC slow down while the computer tries to download each and every icon tile from the server that the redirected folder lives on.
Any any help at all would be greatly appreciated - Windows 8 seems to be so difficult to manage from this perspective so much so that we will not be able to deploy the operating system until it is able to be managed. Editing the default user profile is already too much of an issue and I hope that Microsoft will release group policies for the Metro folder (8.1/blue maybe??) to allow organisations such as ours to customize this essential feature.
Furthermore, the "All Apps" folder is incredibly messy and takes forever again to download icons from the network - none of which was an issue in 7. Moreover, the fact that only one sub folder can be displayed is ridiculous and makes the start menu so difficult to navigate. Windows 8 has a lot of great improvements over 7 but until these start menu problems are resolved it is going to be very very unpopular with enterprise users.
Many thanks in anticipation of any assistance,
JT.
Joel Thornton Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Windows 7 Ultimate x32, Windows XP x32