I've looked at a lot of links and people's ideas but not sure what to do. We have 3 clients starting to roll Windows 10 computers in a domain environments. Two out of three have lost functionality of Start and Search and all Modern Apps.
Logged into computer with user, no start menu functionality, no Cortana. CTL-ALT-DEL opens menu and I chose switch user.
Logged in as Domain admin
NO start menu functionality.
Created new Organizational Unit in Active Directory and moved
computer to this OU. Blocked inheritance to this OU.Reviewed domain policy. It was slightly modified. I created two
policies, one for drive maps, and one for Shortcuts.Verified no Folder Redirection exists.
Applied “Drive Maps” and “Shortcuts” Group Policies explicitly to the Win10+ OU.
Executed dcGPOfix on domain controller to restore default domain and default domain controller policy to default
Reviewed local security policy to see if there are any custom
entries. Cleaned up some.Restarted endpoint.
Same issue.
Removed computer from domain, local login as administrator - Works as expected
Removed old account profiles. Joined computer to domain and placed it into new OU with inheritance blocked. Restarted computer and logged in as domain administrator.
No Start Menu, Same issue.
Reviewed online posts and was unable to find anything that helped.
Went through all links on the first 4 pages...
Tried to look at Registry permissions but the specific entries described are not in the registry on this computer.
Looked for custom registry key where Dell has a script that runs to delete a key/restart to work around this issue. Key does not exist on this computer.
Verified no AD auditing was enabled
Ensured Windows Firewall is enabled
Modified the default domain policy, adding the computer account to it, in addition to authenticated users.
Re-applied GP, restarted
Same issue.
Don't see any access denied errors in Process Monitor.
Would be nice to know what to filter for.
Executed powershell script (Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} ) and restarted.
Same issue.
Copied the file ‘C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy’ to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy’. Restarted
Same Issue.
- Started Application Identity service.
Same Issue
Searched AppLockers and found nothing there that could be causing this.
Located a tool from Microsoft to repair the start menu issue, downloaded and executed... This tool failed to complete after more than 14 hours!
Login as local user while computer is domain joined and all is well. Login back in as domain user and problem remains.
Looking for any good ideas. We've engaged Microsoft support but they haven't been helpful yet. I think they are using Bing to lookup what others have tried. I tested more in 4 hours than they did in 12 on 4 phone calls.
