Impacted users are in different OU's, no other GPO's pushing default XML associations, are on different winver's: 1903 - 1909 - 2004 Ran a procmon at boot, but couldn't find an XML which sets another default association.Īlso the OEMdefaultassociations.xml in System32 does not contain an entry for PDF.Īdding manually does not resolve the issue.
Some of the impacted users are already on Edge chromium, a few are still on Edge legacy.įor the impacted users changing the Edge chromium setting: always open PDF externally gets them in a loop when downloading a PDF, clicking on open results in re-downloading the PDF.Īlso tried adding the NoOpenWith regkey in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppX4hxtad77fbk3jkkeerkrm0ze94wjf3s9, which is not resolving the issue. PDF in the file associations settings changes default to Adobe Reader DC, but only until next logoff/reboot, then it's back to Edge. Administrators may need to tailor these instructions to meet the requirements of their. Since there are many ways to configure Acrobat products as well as Citrix servers, these instructions are intended as basic examples.
Modifying the exported file to use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and importing it does not resolve the issue.Įxporting it again without logoff/reboot, and the entry for PDF has already disappeared. Acrobat products support deployment on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenApp and XenDesktop) on Windows machines. Domain GPO should take precedence over local GPO anyways.Įxporting the file associations with DISM for the impacted users: the file does not contain an entry for PDF. Open the Settings app and scroll to the bottom of the list of options. Also modifying the local GPO to point to a local copy of the xml used in the domain GPO does not resolve the issue. To change the default PDF viewer on Android.
On one of the users I found a local gpo pointing to c:\windows\ccm, but after deleting that file a couple of days ago, the issue persists and the file did not reappear. The GPO is applied, and I can see the UNC path in the registry: hklm:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System pointing to the file I setup via GPO. If you have a word document you have to choose a word processor ( Microsoft. Then navigate to a PDF file and right-click it. Step 1: Press Win + E to open File Explorer. After setting up a domain GPO for default file associations, some users (10 on a total of 5k) still have Edge as default PDF reader. If you need to print a pdf document you must choose the program Adobe. The first way to change default PDF viewer is to open the file properties of a PDF file and then specify an Adobe program to open this type of file.