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Windows10 Setting Default App associations with DISM after sysprep and Ghost Deployment not working

  • 1.  Windows10 Setting Default App associations with DISM after sysprep and Ghost Deployment not working

    Posted Mar 07, 2017 10:22 AM

    Hi Everyone

    I'm wondering if anyone has run into a similar issue and could offer some advice. 
    The help is much appreciated!

    I am working on creating new Windows10 images for our organization.  I am using CopyProfile during sysprep to create a default Windows profile with all our settings, and ghost Solution suite 3.1 for deployment. For some reason the default app associations are getting cleared during sysprep and imaging. I need to find a way to set them after deployment.

    I have tried using the DISM command to export my app associations to an .xml before sysprep.  and again import them after imaging. I have tried running the DISM import command manually and setting it in Group policy under “Set a default associations config file” . Both do not seem to have any effect on Default application settings. 

    I have also tried manually copying the contents of my DefaultApp.xml export to the OEMDefaultAssociations.xml file under system32. This also does not change anything

    Thank You 
    Chris Parsons



  • 2.  RE: Windows10 Setting Default App associations with DISM after sysprep and Ghost Deployment not working

    Posted Mar 08, 2017 01:48 AM

    You can add the the DISM Command to the SetupCompleteCMD.

    dism /Online /Import-DefaultAppAssociations\%pathToXML%\DefaultAppAssociations.xml

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/add-a-custom-script-to-windows-setup