Productivity Baseline (Windows)

Overview

Purpose / Short Summary:

The Devicie Productivity Baseline provides a starting point for organizations to begin their Endpoint user experience improvement journey. It covers a wide range of items that encourage standardization, improve administrators overview and improve user experience with minimal impact to typical user activity.

Intune Description:

Secure, but productive baseline.

Scope:

This template should be applied to Windows devices.

Variables:

The following information must be provided for this template to function:

Variable Name

Description

Value

Enter a primary DNS suffix: (Device)

control how devices handle DNS configurations

deviciedemo.com

DNS Suffixes: (Device)

control how devices handle DNS configurations

deviciedemo.com

Policy Impact Areas:

When deployed, this policy will impact:

Device Power Management settings
Control Panel and Start Menu customization options
Enforce additional endpoint hardware data collection

Deployment Notes:

Pre-Deployment Requirements:
- Nil
Post-Deployment Validation:
- Verify DNS settings
- Verify power management configuration (e.g. on battery power, display off after 600 seconds)

Configuration Settings:

Name	Value
*Administrative Templates*
*Personalization*
Enable screen saver (User)	Disabled
Prevent changing lock screen and logon image	Enabled
*DNS Client*
DNS suffix search list	Enabled
DNS Suffixes: (Device)	Variable (Example: deviciedemo.com)
Primary DNS suffix	Enabled
Enter a primary DNS suffix: (Device)	Variable (Example: deviciedemo.com)
*Start Menu and Taskbar*
Do not allow pinning Store app to the Taskbar (User)	Enabled
*Sleep Settings*
Specify the system sleep timeout (on battery)	Enabled
System Sleep Timeout (seconds):	900
Specify the system sleep timeout (plugged in)	Enabled
System Sleep Timeout (seconds):	0
*Video and Display Settings*
Turn off the display (on battery)	Enabled
On battery power, turn display off after (seconds)	600
Turn off the display (plugged in)	Enabled
When plugged in, turn display off after (seconds)	1800
*Authentication*
Allow Aad Password Reset	Allow
*Experience*
Allow Clipboard History	Allow
Configure Chat Icon	Disabled
*Games*
Allow Advanced Gaming Services	Block
*Privacy*
Let Apps Access Location	Force allow.
*Search*
Do Not Use Web Results	Not allowed. Queries won't be performed on the web and web results won't be displayed when a user performs a query in Search.
*Start*
Hide People Bar (User)	Enabled
*Storage*
Allow Disk Health Model Updates	Allow
Allow Storage Sense Global	Allow
Allow Storage Sense Temporary Files Cleanup	Allow
Config Storage Sense Cloud Content Dehydration Threshold	60
Config Storage Sense Downloads Cleanup Threshold	180
Config Storage Sense Global Cadence	30
Config Storage Sense Recycle Bin Cleanup Threshold	60
*Windows Logon*
Enable First Logon Animation	Disabled

Devicie Template Name	Productivity Baseline (Windows)
Default Intune Deployed Name	DEVICIE-PROD-Productivity Baseline
Template Last Updated	Nov 18, 2024
Document Last Updated:	Apr 10, 2025