Windows 10: Default File association XML in Group Policy will not allow changes

Okay, the title of this question is a little misleading. We currently have a Default file association XML in place in Group Policy to set the default browser to Edge Chromium, however we have some users that want to use Google Chrome as their default browser. As expected if the user made a change form Edge to Chrome the browser would revert back after the machine checked in to retrieve policy, so I created a new policy disabling the Default file association XML and tested that however it still reverted back to Edge when the machine checked in. So again I created yet another policy to set Googl

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File Association Group Policy Not Applying

I am having some issue with a specific group policy not being applied. I am trying to set this

Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > File Explorer > Set a default associations configuration file

group policy for a golden image, however it never seems to actually run. The procedure I use to set it is: I set the defaults that I want, then I run

dism /online /export-defaultappassociations:<path & filename>.xml

in an elevated powershell window, move the file to C:\ProgramData, and specify the file location in group policy.

Once that is complete, I go to test to see if it works. It does not. I have tried logging out, restarting, creating a new user account, resetting the defaults in settings, and replacing the OEMDefaultAssociations.xml file in System32.
The specific group policy never seems to run.

Relevant Info:

Other group policies work fine and have no issues.

I ran a gpresult, and it does not report any issues.

The computer is not and has never been join to domain. (only local group policy exists)

Windows 10 Education - x64 - 1709 - 16299.19

 

File association

I have read scores of discussions regarding adding a program to a default program list and none have worked. Before I go to what many have suggested, is it true if a program is not listed in default list a third party program is needed?

I am using Office 2010 on Windows 7. There is no default listed for opening XML-I want the default to be excel.

I went to file associations and can set wordpad to open xml but if I go to browse and select excel, nothing is saved and nothing changes.

Thanks for any help.

 

Assign Default File Associations to Existing Domain Users

As the title states, I'm looking to set file associations for the users of my organization. The one app in particular is Adobe, as with the most recent Windows 10 Feature update it changed the file association to MS Edge. Unfortunately with 200 users is
very time consuming to hit each and every machine to set file associations.

I've looked into setting file associations using Group Policy and pushing the associations by using the .XML file but when running my test my results were null. Nothing would change with the default apps. Further research showed others having the same issues
and I want to say that using the GPO method only worked for NEW users who's computer had not been added to the domain yet. This would set the file associations but still allow the user to set/change file associations (Default Apps) when they wanted or worse
yet, another feature update to change the settings.

I've also tried the powershell method. I extracted my file associations XML file, change my default apps and then ran the powershell script. Default apps stayed the same.

Is anyone able to show me the light? My users windows 10 build ranges from 1607 - the latest 1709.

Thanks