Windows 10: Assign Default Mail App By GPO

How does a domain administrator assign a Default Mail Application to windows 10 users without replacing the entire AppAssociations.xml?


I want to only set the default mail app to Outlook instead of Windows Mail. I do not want to replace the entire AppAssociations.xml due to the truth that existing users have different file associations and one size xml does not fit all users.

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Disable Mail app via GPO

Hello,

In our environment we have the problem that the default association for the mailto: protocol is not consistently set to open Outlook.

So many users who click a mailto: link will be presented with the Mail app instead of Outlook.
Then they end up logging in their Office 365 account in the Mail app.

I can't seem to find the GPO to disable the Mail app completely.
I now ended up changing my default SCCM deployment to uninstall the Mail app but we still have about 1k devices with the app still installed.

Also, I'm pretty sure if we later this year start the upgrade to the latest W10 build the app will probably be installed again.

So, does anybody know how to disable this freaking thing via GPO?

Thank you

 

Disable Mail app via GPO

Just wondering if that would solve it? If you have something changing the default association or mail program back to Mail, and Mail were disabled by GPO. wouldn't that simply result in the relevant message, Mail being blocked, sthg like




Perhaps, if you can't work out why the default is reverting to Mail, you might consider changing the permissions for the relevant registry keys.. a bit drastic though!

People using an old version of Winzip found their defaults reset on restart. There was one other program that had that effect as I recall.

Another thought was that settings were being synced.

You might consider trying something like this:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/wi...-associations/

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)