Take out the required app assocation that should be configured on the Windows 11 devices. Open Windows Terminal and run dism /online /export-defaultappassociations:defappass.xml to export the XML-file with the configured app associations. On a Windows 11 device, open Settings > Apps > Default apps and configure the required app associations. The following four steps go through the actions to configure the required app associations, to export the required XML-file and to encode that XML-file to Base64 format. That ADMX-backed policy setting is now available in the Settings Catalog and can be used to apply an XML-file with the required configuration. At least no need for using the ApplicationDefaults/DefaultAssociationsConfiguration policy in a custom configuration profile. The biggest change, however, is that in the meantime the configuration options via Microsoft Intune got slightly better. When looking at the configuration options for the default app associations on Windows 11, all the configurations are already available on Windows 10. Creating the custom app associations in Windows 11 In most cases the user and their apps will create their own app associations, when needed. :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/004_how-to-change-file-associations-in-windows-2624477-5c8986af46e0fb0001a0bf7b.jpg "change default programs for opening files")
Important: My personal opinion is that – as with every other customization – the default app associations should be left untouched, when possible. This post ends with showing the user experience with the customized app assoications. This post goes through the creation of the required app assocations file, folowed with applying that file on Windows 11 devices. Even though not a lot has changed, the configuration did become easier. Besides that, this post is also an updated version of this post of over four years ago. Customizing the default app associations enables organizations to associate specific apps with file and link types, for their users. This week, however, is focused on customizing the default app accosiations on Windows 11 devices. This week is another follow-up on the posts of the last weeks about customizing Windows 11 devices.
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