Windows 8, set default application for example adobe reader, customize the start screen

I have two questions, Im going to deploy Windows 8 to our company, but have 2 big issues.
1) I need to customize the start screen, but cant find anywhere in the gpo´s? How can I do this without sysprepping etc (deploying with SCCM2012 SP1)
2) I need to set the default programs for adobe reader, mspaint etc, how can I do this? It doesnt work with the GPP and folder options, anyone have done this?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Thanks for posting your question in the forum. First of all, if you want to deploy customized Windows 8 Start Screen for domain users, I suggest we could refer to the following similar threads
and article.
Group Policy for Windows 8 Start
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/winserver8gen/thread/13a13c25-a1b2-4665-ab67-a2f9bc3b9bba
GPO Management for Windows 8 Start Screen?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/W8ITProPreRel/thread/2d4bdcc6-3733-470e-939f-8b6eb0ef4492/
Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/10/26/start-screen-customization-with-mdt.aspx
Regarding the second question, since you want to set the default programs via Group Policy but it didn’t work. Would you please let me know how did you configure the setting? Please refer to
the following steps to configure the GPO setting.
To create a new Open With preference item
Open the
Group Policy Management Console. Right-click the Group Policy object (GPO) that should contain the new preference item, and then click
Edit.
In the console tree under
User Configuration, expand the Preferences folder, and then expand the
Control Panel Settings folder.
Right-click the
Folder Options node, point to New, and select
Open With.
In the
New Open With Properties dialog box, select an Action for Group Policy to perform.
Enter Open With settings for Group Policy to configure or remove.
Click the
Common tab, configure any options, and then type your comments in the
Description box.
Click
OK. The new preference item appears in the details pane.
For details, please refer to the following article.
Configure an Open With Item
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732272.aspx
In addition, I suggest we could collect the following information to narrow down the cause of the issue.
GPMC.log
==================
a. On domain controller, click Start ->Run, type GPMC.MSC, it will load the GPMC console.
b. Right click on "Group Policy Result" and choose wizard to generate a report for the problematic computer and user account (please place appropriately). (Choose computer and select
the proper user in the wizard)
c. Right click
the resulting group policy result and click the "Save Report…" => save report to save the report to a HTML file.
Hope this helps.
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