Howdy Home windows Insiders, at this time we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25169 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
- This construct features a lockdown characteristic for IT directors and a few enhancements together with a brand-new Home windows Highlight theme.
- As at all times, this construct additionally features a good set of fixes.
What’s new
Multi-App Kiosk Mode
Multi-app kiosk mode is a lockdown characteristic for Home windows 11 that enables an IT administrator to pick a set of allowable apps to run on the gadget, whereas all different functionalities are blocked. This allows you to create a number of completely different apps and entry configurations for various person varieties, all on a single gadget.
Some lockdown customizations embrace:
- Limiting entry to Settings, besides chosen pages (e.g., Wi-Fi and display brightness)
- Lock down the Begin menu to indicate solely allowed apps.
- Block toasts and pop-ups that result in undesirable UI.
Multi-app kiosk mode is good for eventualities by which a number of individuals want to make use of the identical gadget. This will embrace frontline employees and retail eventualities, training and check taking.
At the moment, multi-app kiosk mode will be enabled utilizing PowerShell and WMI Bridge, with assist for Intune/MDM and provisioning package deal configuration coming quickly.
To configure utilizing WMI, comply with these directions. Utilizing the Home windows 10 pattern XML will allow the characteristic, however will lead to an empty Begin menu. To populate the Begin menu along with your apps, comply with these directions to generate the listing of pinned apps, then add it to your XML file after closing the StartLayout part, just like the beneath:
<win11:StartPins><![CDATA[ <em>Your JSON here </em>]]></win11:StartPins>
FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) below Safety and Privateness > Machine Lockdown
Adjustments and Enhancements
[General]
- The adjustments famous right here on this earlier weblog publish on adjustments to how IT admins enroll units within the Home windows diagnostic knowledge processor configuration choice at the moment are included on this construct (Construct 25169 and better). A reminder that if the documented adjustments are usually not acceptable, it’s endorsed to pause flighting.
[Windows Spotlight]
- Now you can allow Home windows Highlight on the desktop by way of a brand-new Home windows Highlight theme now included within the newest builds within the Dev Channel below Settings > Personalization and Settings > Personalization > Themes. Moreover, you can also make your personal customized themes with Home windows Highlight’s rotating pictures as nicely.
[Input]
- We’ve up to date the U.S. English (EN-US) handwriting mannequin to be quicker and extra correct. Use the up to date Handwriting Panel for ink-to-text and tell us what you suppose.
[Settings]
- Settings now helps managing apps which have been earlier solely supported from Management Panel. This contains uninstallation of apps which have inter-dependencies (e.g., Steam and gaming apps working on Steam), restore and modifying of Win32 apps.
[Windows Security]
- The Home windows Safety app model is now displayed in Home windows Safety settings below About.
Fixes
[File Explorer]
- Fastened a difficulty resulting in the Azure Info Safety context menu entry unexpectedly exhibiting with the identify Microsoft.Azip.RightClick after an improve.
[Taskbar]
- Fastened an explorer.exe crash that was stopping taskbar from loading when launching Microsoft Groups conferences typically.
- Fastened a pair explorer.exe crashes some Insiders have been experiencing associated to taskbar overflow.
[Start]
- Fastened a difficulty that was eradicating the “Extra” button in Begin’s Really useful part.
[Settings]
- Fastened a difficulty the place after utilizing the reveal password button within the Wi-Fi part of Fast Settings, the textual content discipline would possibly unexpectedly lose focus.
[Input]
- We made a small tweak to enhance the important thing repeat price for the normal contact keyboard structure, in addition to the default contact keyboard structure, so it feels extra responsive. Now it has the speed of 20 keys per second (for instance, when holding down the delete key).
[Other]
- Fastened a difficulty believed to be the foundation reason for some Insiders experiencing bug checks when opening and copying recordsdata from community places not too long ago.
- Fastened a difficulty which may trigger desynced audio when recording recreation play with the Xbox Recreation Bar.
- Fastened a difficulty resulting in error code 0x80004005 when utilizing the community troubleshooter.
- Made some changes to repair a difficulty the place the scrollbar in sure locations (like File Explorer) was unexpectedly extensive when utilizing excessive DPI scaling.
- Fastened a difficulty believed to be the foundation reason for Home windows Safety saying customary {hardware} safety wasn’t supported on units the place it was truly supported, in addition to exhibiting a warning within the taskbar however not exhibiting any points when Home windows Safety was launched. Please observe, attributable to timing of the payload, these points might come again after the following Home windows Safety replace. It’s going to go away once more after a future Home windows Safety replace.
NOTE: Some fixes famous right here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel might make their means into the servicing updates for the launched model of Home windows 11.
Recognized points
[General]
- We’re investigating studies that SQL Server Administration Studio is failing to launch for some Insiders.
- Some video games that use Straightforward Anti-Cheat might crash or trigger your PC to bugcheck.
[File Explorer]
- The up arrow is misaligned in File Explorer tabs. This will probably be mounted in a future replace.
- We’re engaged on a repair to deal with studies that launching File Explorer in sure methods when utilizing darkish mode (for instance, from the command line) is exhibiting the physique of File Explorer unexpectedly in mild mode.
[Widgets]
- Notification badge quantity might seem misaligned on the taskbar.
- In some instances, the notification banner for some badging won’t seem within the widgets board.
- We’re engaged on the repair for a difficulty inflicting Widgets preferences (temperature models and pinned widgets) to unexpectedly get reset to default.
For builders
You possibly can obtain the most recent Home windows Insider SDK at aka.ms/windowsinsidersdk.
SDK NuGet packages at the moment are additionally flighting at NuGet Gallery | WindowsSDK which embrace:
These NuGet packages present extra granular entry to the SDK and higher combine in CI/CD pipelines.
Concerning the Dev Channel
The Dev Channel receives builds that symbolize lengthy lead work from our engineers with options and experiences that will by no means get launched as we check out completely different ideas and get suggestions. It is very important do not forget that the builds we launch to the Dev Channel shouldn’t be seen as matched to any particular launch of Home windows and the options included might change over time, be eliminated, or changed in Insider builds or might by no means be launched past Home windows Insiders to normal prospects. For extra info, please learn this weblog publish about how we plan to make use of the Dev Channel to incubate new concepts, work on lengthy lead gadgets, and management the states of particular person options.
These aren’t at all times secure builds, and typically you will note points that block key actions or require workarounds. It is very important ensure you learn the identified points listed in our weblog posts as we doc many of those points with every flight.
Construct numbers are increased within the Dev Channel than the Home windows 11 preview builds within the Beta and Launch Preview Channels. You won’t be able to change from the Dev Channel to the Beta or Launch Preview Channels with out doing a clear set up again to the launched model of Home windows 11 presently.
ALSO: As a result of the Dev and Beta Channels symbolize parallel growth paths from our engineers, there could also be instances the place options and experiences present up within the Beta Channel first.
The desktop watermark you see on the decrease proper nook of your desktop is regular for these pre-release builds.
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Thanks,
Amanda & Brandon
