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The title is nearly the whole question.
I am searching a solution to pin an installed app or desktop application to the windows 8 startscreen.
I am in an enterprise environment and the purpose is to add a new tile to the startscreen if some new software was delivered to the user. But with the speciality to pin this new tile to a specific position. F.e. we have three groups (Desktop/Apps/Office) now the user gets a new App, there should be a way to add a new tile to the "Apps" Group on the first position.
The best solution will be a powershell or if there is no other possibility a batch/vbs to do this. I also tried the new powershell cmdlets (f.e. Export-StartLayout -as xml) searched the technet to solve this problem but with absolutly no success.
Martin
Posted 2013-08-27T12:27:43.270
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there is no automatic way. customize the screen this way: http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/10/26/start-screen-customization-with-mdt.aspx
– magicandre1981 – 2013-08-27T18:21:55.193There must be a way. F.e. Flexera Studio can do this and I think M$ must provide a way especially for the Enterprise Environment - I hope – Martin – 2013-08-27T22:24:47.280
Flexera can put the icon exactly where they want for both existing and new users / profiles? – Austin T French – 2013-08-28T00:11:26.223
the layout is stored in this file: "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\appsFolder.itemdata-ms", maybe they decoded the file format, but I haven't found a documentation about it. – magicandre1981 – 2013-08-28T04:18:00.043
Yes I found the file(s) too. With no documentation from MS or other Websites. @AthomSfere - Yes it could but only on Win 8.0 not 8.1 :( possibly MS changed the way to do this – Martin – 2013-08-28T06:23:25.907