![]() It took me a while to find the issue, although I can only speculate on the why. Where is my custom icon? It’s there when I look at the shortcut via “All Apps”, but it’s gone as soon as I pin the app to the Start Screen. I started pinning the custom shortcuts to Start and when I navigated back to the Start Screen I found this: I don’t want to repeat everything other intelligent community members wrote on this topic, so I will just give you the PowerShell cmdlet I used to export the Start Layout:Įxport-StartLayout -As BIN -Path $Servername\CustomStartLayout.binĮxport-StartLayout -As XML -Path $Servername\CustomStartLayout.xml Export and Import custom Start Screen with PowerShell I now needed to pin all these custom shortcuts to the Start Screen and then export the Start Screen layout. The Google shortcut in the file system also shows the custom icon. For demo’s sake I created a shortcut to in my environment, it would’ve also worked with or any other search engine of your choice. ![]() The special thing here is that this customer also likes to have custom icons for each of their shortcuts, just so that users easily recognize the app they need. “%programfiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” I asked the customer to give me all their shortcuts so that I can then copy them to the default user’s profile during deployment (in this case MDT 2013 stand alone, but that doesn’t matter). Therefor I only have to deploy all the shortcuts to their web applications. This customer is pretty easy as most of their applications are web apps. A customer of mine asked me to create a new Windows 8.1 Enterprise SOE (golden image, standard image, whatever) and also customize the Start Menu and Start Screen layout.
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