Windows 10: Windows 20H2 Domain Join breaks Start Menu

Upon doing a recovery of a system to start with a clean slate, it now installs 20H2. All looks good. Start menu and taskbar look normal.


We then join it to our domain. Upon reboot, the start menu will not show the applications list. No option to expose it. Start menu settings shows "Show app list in start menu" greyed out. Trying to log out shows as the only option "Change Account Settings" Right clicking on taskbar, the task manager is greyed out. We checked the GPO for the start menu app list removal and it is listed as "not configured". Tried setting the local policy to different settings with no effect.


Read thru the event viewer and nothing jumped out as related.


All very strange. We are a hospital that has been running this AD schema for a number of years. It is based on Windows Server 2012 R2. We have over 250 systems with multiple levels of windows 10 Pro systems in production, with none of them showing these behaviors. At this point, 20H2 is unusable for us.

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Start Menu stopped working after joining to domain

Hi,

When I joined windows 10 pro to active directory domain, start menu stopped working also cortana and search.

What might be the problem.

Regards

 

Start menu will not work after joining domain.

Hi and thanks for reaching out. My name is William. I'm a Windows technical expert. I'll be happy to help you out today.

I can't recall if I ever saw this in my environment. I doubt it. We never add devices in the "out-of-the-box-experience" state to our domain. We image machines via SCCM Task Sequence first. I dont know if you do the same, but my guess would be that if you are
adding them OOOE that the maker has inserted a custom action that is breaking Start for domain users. Dell use to do this. I dont know about other manufactures, we have since moved to HP.

if it is not that, then the issue is almost certainly security related, and I would suspect that the problem would be specific to the domain users group or the computer object group. My first tool of choice would be to turn to Process Monitor and filter results
for for access violations.

The other cause would be Firewall service being disabled. There is no harm enabling that in the domain profile, even with other security appliances in place. We have security up the proverbial @ss that I chase my tail sometimes trying to find out what is breaking
who, but it is never firewall service.

Finally, if you have not already gave it a read, see this thread:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-...

 

Joining Windows 10 Build 10130 to the domain the search and Start menu won't work.

Original title: Windows 10 Start menu

When I join my Windows 10 Build 10300 computer to the domain, the start menu and the search no longer work