Overview
Purpose / Short Summary:
The Devicie Productivity Baseline provides a starting point for organisations to begin their Endpoint user experience improvement journey. It covers a wide range of items that encourage standardisation, improve administrators overview and improve user experience with minimal impact to typical user activity.
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 customisation 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 |
|
Version |
1.0 (To be updated per new schema, see Sean) |
|
Template Last Updated |
Nov 18, 2024 |
|
Document Status: |
DRAFT |
|
Document Last Updated: |
Apr 10, 2025 |