Windows 10 Professional and pinning task bar items
It still bothers me that pinning shortcuts to the taskbar as part of the imaging process for all users, has become such a bother.. particularly when using Windows 10 Pro. Firstly, anyone who has works with Windows 10 Enterprise needn't worry about this post, as you can simply set your start menu layout, export the layout to an XML file using Powershell and then edit that XML to include the taskbar settings. This can then be deployed to your endpoint machines via GPO. Simple! For those looking for the documentation, it can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/windows-10-start-layout-options-and-policies Of course, if you're using Windows 10 Professional, this becomes problematic.. as the moment you add the taskbar component of that XML file, applying it via GPO causes explorer.exe to end up in an endless crash/restart/crash loop. You can however, still apply your start layout this way without any issues (just don't change the XML file aft...