Hi,
How can I change the default mail client in Windows from a Endpoint Manager policy ?
I want to change it to Outlook.
/Andy
Configure default mail client
If office 365 is so good why do we have to do all that? It should have a link inside it to make it work. Anyhow I did all that and it was an epic fail except for the programming part. I cannot click on a photo and have it send to as one of the links in the photo says. It does not work and is one of the most missed useful links that windows 7 had. I am still amazed at how unfriendly Windows 10 is compared to Windows 7.
@andreasbright-4989 Thanks for posting in our Q&A. From your description, I know you want to change the default email client to outlook. If there’s any misunderstanding, feel free to let us know.
I have done the test in my lab. Here are the detailed steps for the reference:
Select a windows10 test machine , navigate to Settings > Apps > Default apps and configure the email default app to outlook;
Open cmd as administrator and run command: Dism /Online /Export-DefaultAppAssociations:c:\DefAppAss.xml. This can export the required app association file.
Only keep the following part in this XML file which configure the default app for email.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DefaultAssociations>
<Association Identifier="mailto" ProgId="Outlook.URL.mailto.15" ApplicationName="Outlook" />
</DefaultAssociations>
Open the Base64 encoder and encode the content in the previous step to Base64 format. The result in Base64 format is the OMA-URI value. Here is the Base64 encoder I used:
https://www.base64encode.net/
Note: Non-Microsoft link, just for the reference.
Go to Microsoft Endpoint manager admin center. Create a custom profile and deploy this profile to the group you want.
Name : Set a name for this profile.
OMA-URI setting: ./Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/ApplicationDefaults/DefaultAssociationsConfiguration
Data Type: String
Value (The value is gotten from step 4 ) :
PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4NCjxEZWZhdWx0QXNzb2NpYXRpb25zPiANCiAgPEFzc29jaWF0aW9uIElkZW50aWZpZXI9Im1haWx0byIgUHJvZ0lkPSJPdXRsb29rLlVSTC5tYWlsdG8uMTUiIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9uTmFtZT0iT3V0bG9vayIgLz4NCjwvRGVmYXVsdEFzc29jaWF0aW9ucz4=
After the profile deploy successfully, try to restart this device. We can find the email default app has be changed to outlook.
Hope it can help.
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The only way I am aware of is using the OMA CSP DefaultAssociationsConfiguration, exported xml and a base64 encoder.
Seems to be the case. There's the option string (XML-file), but that doesn't seem to work. You still have to use the string and convert the xml to base64... :( Don't know why there's the option to upload a xml file if it doesn't work. Maybe for other settings, but surely not for this one.
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