You can do a Partial Start Layout via Group Policy and your end-users can add items to the remaining areas and move them around. My understanding would be they just can't remove the ones you applied.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/customize-windows-10-start-screens-by-using-group-policy On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Trond Karstensen <trond.karsten...@skill.no > wrote: > Hi. > > > > On Windows 10 projects we are usually deploying a customized Windows 10 > Start Menu when deploying new computers. > > This works very well for new computers (using dism and importing the xml > file). > > > > Is there a way to apply a custom start menu when doing in-place-upgrade ? > > By using dism it will only apply the custom start menu to new profiles, so > not very useful when profiles are migrated by the migration process. > > I know you can enforce a start menu by Group Policy, but then users will > not be able to customize the start menu so that is not a good option. > > > > Regards > > Trond > > >