Windows 10 Enterprise Granular UX Control And Start Screen Customization?

I see these listed as features, but with little to no explanation of what that includes and what the differences are between the two.Does anyone have examples of what you can do with these two features and if they are managed via Group Policy?When we roll out Windows 10, we would want all users to have a customized and uniform layout on first login with most or all of the default "consumer" Store apps except for Weather and Maps removed and our deployed business apps and shortcuts to commonly used things like "add a printer" up front and center and things they don't need as of their jobs duties hidden away.We will also have loaner laptops that we would want more locked down than normal assigned PCs so they would work as just a thin RDP client to their desktop with only the UI needed to get signed in and use the RDP app..
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