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Configure Surface Hub Start menu

Article • 04/19/2023

Surface Hub ships with a default Start menu that admins can modify with specific apps
to meet organizational requirements. For example, you can

install Progressive Web Apps

and include them in the Start menu for quick user access at the start of every Hub
session.

The

Surface Hub Start menu

is rendered from a Start layout XML file that includes App

ID values (AppUserModelID) for default applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint,
Word, and Excel. You can add new tiles or replace the default values with the
AppUserModelID associated with the apps you wish to display.

As described below

, use

a mobile device management (MDM) provider such as Microsoft Intune to deploy a
Start layout device policy containing your modified Start layout XML. To learn more,
refer to

Manage Surface Hub with an MDM provider

.

There are a few key differences between Start menu customization for Surface Hub and
a Windows 10 desktop:

You cannot use the Start layout XML to configure the taskbar or the Welcome
screen for Surface Hub.
The Start layout policy should be assigned only to devices, not users.
The OMA-URI setting to use in the policy is

./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Start/StartLayout

DesktopApplicationTile

is only supported for Edge and Microsoft Teams. All other

Win32 apps are blocked by Code Integrity policy

Overview

Differences between Surface Hub and desktop Start
menu

Default Surface Hub Start menu

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