Advice for Creating a Custom Default User Profile in Windows Enterprise 8/8.1 Preview

Just after some advice on the Best way to create a custom Default User Profile for our Windows 8 Enterprise Image.
We are also looking at the Windows 8.1 Enterprise preview so advice on creating a Default User profile for this would also be appreciated.

My Requirements are listed below
-Pinned Web sites that open in Windows 8 App style IE
-Default Windows 8 pre-installed Apps
-The Microsoft Lync Windows 8 Client from the App Store *I understand this would be tricky, not fussed though if it cant be done*
-Customised Start screen layout

I have tried the Copy Profile tag in the Unattend.xml and syspreped the machine, this did not work.
I have tried using the new "Start Screen Layout" Group Policy object, this also did not work

The Closest I can get was to setup a user profile, Backup the Default User profile, Rename the User I worked on to "Default", Clean up the temp folder, then navigate through the user registry and replaced any absolute profile paths with the %USERPROFILE% variable. This worked in terms of setting the layout of the start screen, but the Lync App was not present, and Windows 8 apps, eg Video, Music and IE, would crash when attempting to open them.

I know I am doing something wrong, so any advice would be much appreciated.

Thankyou

August 22nd, 2013 9:33pm

I have followed the Links you sent.

Firstly, When I pin Web sites, they don't move across to the default profile

Secondly, The Lync Windows Store App also Disappears (Expected, but hoped for a solution)

Being able to Pin Websites to the start screen for all users seems to be the big one for my school. They want their LMS, Rollmarking and Intranet (All Websites) Pinned to the Start screen for All users (Rollmarking for Staff Only). We are also taking advantage of Windows 8.1/IE11 New features to have our site Tiles as Live Tiles, so we really need the ability to either setup the Default User Profile, Push Out Pinned Sites to Users with Group Policy or Both.

Any Clues?

September 19th, 2013 10:02pm

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