Windows 11 22h2 Enterprise and Default app XML PDF association NOT WORKING

Question

Hi Folks,

      I’m creating a Win 11 image and in there I’ve got an XML file that’s configured to tell windows to use Adobe Reader as the default pdf viewer. This is mirroring the publicly available XML doc Adobe provides. 

The issue is that while this same XML worked fine when I had it in Windows 10 LTSC image with setting reader as default using the XML and GPO , in Windows 11 it won’t make reader the default pdf viewer. Windows 11 still shows nothing it selected to view PDF files. It actually isn't Edge taking over. DISM file association export doesn't show anything tied to PDFs. It is really bizarre. 

I need to set this so all users of the image will have reader as the default pdf viewer. Idk why it doesn’t work in 11 when it was fine in 10. Do I need to set the xml and still open the app and set it as the default viewer?? Anyone else run into this??

Again, this is 22H2 and I've tried everything I can think of. I think something is wrong with 22h2 when it comes to doing this

Answer 1

It's a bug in 22H2. It's known since Nov 2022. I'm still waiting for a fix/work arround also.

Answer 2

Try to use this link:

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide/pdfviewer.html

I'm was with same issue, below my details:

Adobe Acrobat DC (64-bit) - 22.001.20169

I'm using this options:

<Association Identifier=".pdf" ProgID="Acrobat.Document.DC" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".pdfxml" ProgID="Acrobat.pdfxml" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".acrobatsecuritysettings" ProgID="Acrobat.acrobatsecuritysettings" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".fdf" ProgID="Acrobat.FDFDoc" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".xfdf" ProgID="Acrobat.XFDFDoc" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".xdp" ProgID="Acrobat.XDPDoc" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".pdx" ProgID="PDXFileType" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".api" ProgID="Acrobat.Plugin" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".secstore" ProgID="Acrobat.SecStore" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".sequ" ProgID="Acrobat.Sequence" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".rmf" ProgID="Acrobat.RMFFile" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

<Association Identifier=".bpdx" ProgID="AcrobatBPDXFileType" ApplicationName="Adobe Acrobat DC" />

I hope this can helo you.