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Microsoft has released a new version of Windows 11 for the Dev and Beta channels that features multiple group policies that IT administrators can use to modify the Start menu, taskbar, and system tray.
These newly added group policies can also be configured locally by opening the group policy editor and navigating to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar.
They can also be deployed to Windows systems through Microsoft Endpoint Manager using a profile with custom settings in Intune.
“We’re introducing new policies for IT admins to simplify their Windows 11 experience across the Start, taskbar, and system tray,” the Windows Insider team said.
The full list of new MDM and group policies introduced today includes:
- Disable Quick Settings dropdown
- Disable notification center and calendar flyouts
- Disable all taskbar settings
- Disable search (via Start and taskbar)
- Hide task view from taskbar
- Block customization of ‘Pinned’ on Start
- Hide ‘Recommended’ on Start
- Disable Start context menus
- Hide ‘All Apps’ on Start
Security fixes and improvements
Today’s release, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22610, also comes with a sizable list of changes and fixes for known issues.
Microsoft also updated the Kids Safety Widget to add a new shared location view to show where family members use the Kids Safety app.
Redmond also says that Windows 11 Home edition Dev and Beta Channel builds, the latest editions of Windows or Windows Server that still had the 30-year-old SMBv1 file sharing protocol enabled, now also disable the SMBv1 client by default.
Redmond announced that it would disable SMBv1 on most versions of the Windows operating system in June 2017 after disabling it on internal versions of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows Server 2016.
SMBv1 is no longer installed on Windows by default since Windows 10 version 1709 and Windows Server version 1709, and newer versions of Windows have switched to SMBv3.
Microsoft has been advising administrators to remove support for SMBv1 starting in 2016 because it doesn’t come with the additional security improvements included in newer versions.
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