Trim down the XML file and keep only the File Extensions and URL Associations that you want, in this example for Chrome and Outlook: The default layout is just two lines, I added a Carriage Return(enter) at the end of each tag of the XML file to make it more readable as you can see below. I prefer using Notepad++ to edit the ‘Default Applications.xml’. The 2 nd step is to edit and trim down these settings (in XML file format) to fit your needs.

This will contain a folder ‘Registry’ and in that folder 2 files:.

Find and extract the ‘default apps – FTA and protocols.zip’ from this test user to a temporary location.

DEM will export these settings to the test user DEM profile share.

When you are done, logoff the test user.

Logon as a test user and manually change the default mail app to Outlook and the default Browser to Chrome, like this:.

Make sure DEM is configured with the config file we just created above.

Let’s start with the 1 st step capture the settings from a test user

Add the new XML file as a predefined setting using the DEM management console.

Edit and trim down these settings (in XML file format) to fit your needs.

To create these predefined settings, we need to take the following three steps: This can be achieved with DEM as well, using the so-called ‘pre-defined settings. For instance, they want to make sure Chrome is the default browser, and Outlook should be the default e-mail client. While this is great, some companies want to provide the users with some default settings. This will make sure that any choices or changes that the users make during their sessions will be captured at logoff and restored at logon. Give this config file the name ‘default apps – FTA and protocols.ini’. You can select this when you use the Config File Creation Wizard in the DEM Management console. To do this, just create a DEM config file using the provided template: ‘Default Applications – File Type Associations and Protocols’.

Let’s start with the easy first step: capturing the user’s choices for Default Apps and FTA’s.

This time I would like to show how VMware Dynamic Environment Manager can help in managing the users Default Applications and File Type Associations.

Edit vmdk file notepad