Hello guys,
I'm building a new RDS farm on Windows Server 2016. 2 servers with connection broker, gateway, web server and licensing role (ha mode) installed and 4 session hosts - all on WS2016Standard.
I wanted to customize the Start menu on the session hosts for each user - For Windows Server 2016 there isn't much guidance to be found, so i assumed the articles from Jeanie Decker on https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/customize-and-export-start-layout about customizing, exporting en re-deploying the Start menu on the session hosts with GPO's for Windows 10. ADMX files are imported in AD GPO store.
I created a Start menu with a test user, exported with Export-StartLayout, put it in a share and tested if the test user had access to the share and file: all tests ok. Created the GPO, tested the GPO with gpresult /r, and the GPO is applied: all ok.
The customized Start menu is not applied however. I've noticed that the User Config GPO states:
There are no errors in Event Log - Administrative Events, Application and/or System logs regarding applying or failing this. A gpresult /v gives me this output:
Anyone has any ideas why this is not applying? Or any other way to troubleshoot this issue further?