

Review the settings and press “Create” to finish create and assign the device profile.ġ5. Configure optional Applicability Rules or leave empty. Assign the Configuration profile for example “testusers”.ġ3. A new row has been added, press “Next” to continue.ġ2. Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/ApplicationDefaults/DefaultAssociationsConfiguration Data Type: String Value: Copy encoded Base64 value (step 5)ġ1. Name: For example: DefaultAssociationsConfiguration Description: For example: Default applications and associations OMA-URI. Enter the following values and press “Save” to continue.

Press “Add” to add the custom OMA-URI setting.ġ0. Enter a recognizable name and optional description. Press “Create” to create the configuration profile.Ĩ. Select platform “Windows 10 or later”, select profile type “Templates” and select template name “Custom”. Press “+ Create Profile” to create a new configuration profile.ħ.
#Setting defaults windows#
Login to the MEM admin center and select “Devices -> Windows -> Configuration profiles” or click here. Paste the contents of the xml file and press “Encode” to encode the xml data. Open the Internet browser and go to an encoder for example. Open the XML file and copy the contents.ĥ. Enter the following command to export the settings to a XML file Dism /Online /Export-DefaultAppAssociations:""Ĥ. After you configure default apps, run Powershell (ISE) as an administrator. Additionally, you can select applications based on file type and protocol.ģ. Configure the applications you want to use as default applications. On the bottom of the screen you can reset the applications to their defaults or choose default apps based on file type, protocol and select by app.Ģ. In this screen you are able to choose the default apps. On your reference computer login as administrator and browse to Settings -> Apps -> Default Apps. In this demo I use two computers a reference computer to configure the settings and a target computer to test the policy on.ġ. The encoded xml is then used in Intune to create a custom configuration profile. The first step is to configure the desired settings on a reference computer and export them to an xml file. To configure the default apps through Intune, several steps must be followed. mpg will change, but the protocol MSWINDOWSVIDEO will still use the “Movies & TV” app. For example: If you change the video player from the default “Movies & TV” app to “Windows Media Player” associated file types as. Sometimes not all file and protocol associations are linked to the new default app.
