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Start Menu Layout Group Policy
I have setup a Group Policy under User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Start Menu and Taskbar and I have Enabled Start Layout to point to my XML file which is in a shared folder. However, ...
According to your screenshot, you try to use the layout.xml for your terminal servers. Some things to consider that might give your troubles:
- Make sure all users that logon to your session hosts have read access to the fileshare
- Make sure that you enabled group policy loopback processing for the session host computers. To apply a user policy to all users that logon to a specific computer, you have to place the policy-object in the OU-path of the computer and set gpo-loopback processing accordingly on the computer-policy for the computer.
- Check for a user who gets the layout not applied if the gpo is applied at least (use gpresult /r as the problematic user)
- Change the timestamp on the xml-file. If a user already got a layout-xml applied (does not matter when or where), it will only reapply a new layout.xml if the timestamp on the file is newer than the previous one that got applied. You can use (get-item <pathtoxml>).LastWriteTime = Get-Date for this.
When I do a gpresult /r for the problematic user, it shows that the GPO is applied. So not sure what else to check with this user.