Windows 11 Dev build 22579 includes new USB encryption policy, Start menu, taskbar improvements

Microsoft today released a new Windows 11 Dev Channel build 22579, and like all recent Dev Channel releases, this one includes new features and changes. As usual, there are many bug fixes.

What's new in Build 22579

Exclude USB removable drives from encryption

We A new policy is being introduced to allow IT administrators to exclude USB removable drives from BitLocker encryption. This will solve the problem of automatic or accidental encryption of built-in storage in specialized devices such as cameras, audio recorders, conferencing systems, medical equipment, etc. When this policy is enabled, you will not be able to encrypt storage on the exclusion list and if you connect such storage to the device when "Deny write access to removable drives not protected by BitLocker" You are not prompted that the encryption policy is enabled. Until now, this policy could only be configured via an MDM custom OMA-URI.

Here are the steps IT administrators can take to exclude storage from encryption:

Step 1: Collect the hardware IDs of the devices you want to exclude. You can obtain the hardware ID of your device by following the steps listed in this documentation page.

Step 2: Configure the BitLocker exclusion list policy in Intune:

1. Log in to the Endpoint Manager portal.
2. Go to Device > Configuration Files.
3. Click "Create Profile".
4. Select the platform "Windows 10 and later" and profile type: "Template", then select the template name: "Custom".

Create a profile containing these dates in the Endpoint Manager portal to set your BitLocker exclusion list policy.

5. On the Basics tab, give your policy a name and add any description.

Add a name and description for your policy on the Basics tab of the profile you just created.

6. On the Configuration Settings tab click Add and:

• Enter your Name and setup instructions.
• Oma-URI: ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/BitLocker/ RemovableDrivesExcludedFromEncryption
• Data type: String
• Value: Enter the hardware ID you copied in the previous step. You can separate each entry with a comma.

#Add the above details on the Configuration Settings tab of the configuration file you just created.

7. Click Save, then click Next.
8. On the Assignment tab, select the group to which you want this policy to apply.

On the Assignments tab of the profile you just created, select the groups to which you want the policy to apply.

9. Click Next, Next, and then click Create on the Review create tab .

Feedback: Please submit feedback in the Feedback Center (WIN F) under Security & Privacy > BitLocker & Device Encryption.

Now let’s take a look at the changes and improvements brought by the new Build 22579:

Changes and improvements

[General]

• As some Insiders have noticed, in addition to our updated print queue experience, we have also updated so that win32 applications that use CPrintDialog to display a print dialog will now display our modern print dialog. Additionally, modern print dialogs automatically discover local network printers. If you select a new printer, it will be installed without going into Setup. Please submit feedback about your printing experience in the Feedback Center under Devices & Drivers > Printing.
• We are returning the Open With dialog redesign introduced with Build 22567 back to the previous design. We plan to restore this feature in the future after resolving some performance issues discovered by Windows Insiders. Thanks for your feedback!
• To ensure users can still quickly access the console after uninstalling Windows Terminal, we are updating the WIN X menu to point to Windows PowerShell. If you have Windows Terminal installed and want to open Windows PowerShell in Windows Terminal, we recommend that you go to Settings > Privacy & Security > For Developers and set Windows Terminal as your default Terminal application. The magnifying glass and on-screen keyboard now have new Fluent style icons.

[Start Menu]

You can now name your application folders in Start. To name a folder, simply create a folder (the default name is "Folder"), open it, click "Edit Name" and enter your folder name. Alternatively, open the folder with keyboard focus, then select the text box and start typing.

The folder at the beginning.

[Getting Started App]

We’ve added pinned site suggestions to the Getting Started app so you can easily pin sites to task bar. To find this new feature, launch the Get Started app and navigate to the Apps & Sites We Think You'll Like page. Click on any site suggested on the page to pin it to your taskbar so you can access the sites you care about with one click.

Please submit feedback in the Feedback Center (WIN F) under Apps > Start.

# Site suggestions in the Getting Started app that you can pin to your taskbar.

Note: This experience recommends popular websites and is currently only available for EN-US devices. Support for personalized site recommendations and additional locales will soon be available.

[Open window]

Continue working on updating multi-finger touch gestures to include finger-following responses and pleasing animations, try using three fingers Swipe left or right and switch between recently used windows.

Swipe left or right with 3 fingers to switch between recently used windows.

[Task Manager]

Based on feedback, the "Run new task" button is now available on all pages of Task Manager.

• Updated the icon for running new tasks.

[Enter]

To help improve discoverability, emoji that can be personalized (such as the family emoji) are now available in Emoji A small accent color dot appears in the lower corner of its entry in the panel.

• Removed the keyboard layout section from quick settings.

Next, we fixed the bug in Build 22579:

[General]

Resolved an issue that caused game services to not work in the previous version, causing problems launching and installing some games.

• Fixed some high-hit explorer.exe crashes affecting recent flights during general use of Windows.
• Fixed a bug for Windows Insiders trying to upgrade directly from Windows 10 to the latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build.

【Tablet Optimized Taskbar】

NOTE: These fixes will only appear if the tablet optimized taskbar is enabled on your device. The taskbar has started rolling out to Windows Insiders, but is not yet available to everyone.

No more swiping twice from the tablet-optimized taskbar to reveal Start or Quick Settings—these will be revealed by continuing to swipe up once the taskbar is fully expanded.

• Fixed an issue where using a swipe gesture to invoke the Start menu could display on the wrong screen if an external monitor was connected.
• Notifications will no longer overlap the tablet-optimized taskbar.
• Fixed an issue where the desktop area might not be fully rendered if you invoked task view.
• Mid-clicking the app icon to launch a new instance of the app should now work again.

[Start Menu]

• Fixed an issue where Start's folder still displayed animation even if you disabled the animation effect.
• Mitigated an issue that caused starting pinning and folder layout to be reset to defaults after explorer.exe restarted.
• Resolved a potential issue that caused a transparent line to appear on the side of the Start menu when changing the display ratio.

[Key]

• You will now see the same settings as the clock app in focus sessions within 30 minutes of starting from Notification Center The program starts with the same interrupt in the session.
• If Do Not Disturb is turned on before starting a focus session, stopping the focus session will no longer turn off Do Not Disturb.
• If you open a focus session, it will not be reset if you now have to log out or restart.
• Fixed an issue that caused keyboard focus to unexpectedly move to the top of Notification Center when ending a focus session below the calendar.
• Fix that prevents you from adding apps to "Settings" > "System" > "Notifications" > "Settings" Issue with "Priority Notification"

[Input]

• Fixed not being able to use "angry" (kızgın) in Turkish Word search irritated facial emoji question. Please continue to provide feedback on emoji search results in the Feedback Center under the Input & Language > Emoji panel!
• Fixed an issue where the Japanese IME unexpectedly switches to Katakana mode when focus is set to the UAC dialog.
• Recently alleviated an issue where if you removed a third-party IME from the language in Settings > Time & Language > Language & Region Uninstall it and it may still show up in the input switcher.
• Fixed an issue that caused the mouse to be invisible in fields in some apps, as well as some recent unexpected cursor-related app crashes in flight.
• Fixed an issue where gestures introduced into Notification Center from the side of the screen would not work for Arabic or Hebrew display languages.

[Settings]

• Fixed an issue with Network and Internet top headers where chevrons were used in Arabic and Greek Hebrew shows the backward direction in the language.

[Open window]

• If transparency is turned off under Settings > Personalization > Colors, the ALT Tab The background will no longer be transparent.
• Snapshot layout's closing animation will now appear more consistently if you drag a window to the top of the screen and then drag it back down.
• Made minor adjustments to fix animation glitches when calling snapshot layout at the top of the screen.
• Fixed an explorer.exe crash that occurred when dragging certain windows in the snapshot layout at the top of the screen.
• Mitigated an issue that caused the Task View to appear unresponsive if you called the Task View while Snapshot Assist was displayed on the screen.
• Some work was done to fix an issue where ALT Tab could get stuck opening if you invoked it via a very fast gesture on the touchpad.
• Fixed an explorer.exe crash that could occur when the application entered and exited full-screen mode.

[Network]

• Mitigated an issue that caused cellular connections to not work on some devices in recent releases.
• Resolved an issue that caused Wi-Fi speeds to slow down during the previous flight.

[Voice Access]

• Fixed an issue that caused the Voice Access banner to block the top row of desktop icons or the top of full-screen applications.

[Live Subtitles]

• Live subtitles will now appear on your desktop.
• If the live subtitles window is forced to float (such as when using a full-screen application), the "Screen Float" window position will now correctly appear as a selection in the settings popup.
• The maximum height of the live subtitles window is now capped at 40% of the monitor height.
• Live subtitles will no longer crash when shrinking the maximum height live subtitles window.
• Switching mono audio will no longer crash live subtitles.

[Narration]

• Fixed Narrator issue in Settings>Accessibility when using Shift Tab navigation >Tell about the problem of how people read the folded part.

[Task Manager]

• Fixed some high-hit Task Manager crashes.
• Fixed an issue where if focus was on the Details page and you started typing, focus would stop moving through the process list after the first letter.
• The Task Manager title bar will now be hidden if you are using the Performance page in summary view.

[Other]

• The volume popup percentage shown when using hardware keys will now always be centered in the design.
• Improved how keyboard focus and navigation work when moving around and turning off accessibility options on the lock screen.

Note: Some of the fixes mentioned here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into servicing updates for Windows 11 builds that are officially released on October 5, 2021.

The known issues in Build 22579 are:

[Tablet-optimized taskbar]

• When launching the application Or the taskbar doesn't always collapse automatically after clicking outside the extended taskbar on a 2-in-1 device.
• Some areas of the operating system do not yet track the height of the expanded taskbar on 2-in-1 devices, so you may see overlapping components, such as widgets that overlap the taskbar.

[File Manager]

• Opening the suggested results that appear when you enter a search term in File Explorer's search box may not help effect.
• We're fixing issues with icon size, visual bugs, and text clipping in flyouts showing OneDrive storage.

[Widget]

• Sometimes, when pinning from the feed, the pinned widget is placed on top instead of the other pinned widgets underneath the component. If this happens, this will automatically correct within 30 minutes, moving the recently pinned widget to the expected default location. Alternatively, you can log out of the widget board and log back in immediately to resolve the issue.
• After rearranging widgets in the widget board, some users are experiencing incorrect rendering of widgets in the fixed section. If this happens, logging out of the widget board and logging back in immediately should resolve the issue.

[Important]

• The Clock app has not yet updated the Windows focus state when configuring a focus session within the app. This will be addressed in a future app update.

[Narration]

• In the latest version, natural sounds occasionally break. Restart Narrator to resolve the issue.

[Live Subtitles]

• Some full-screen apps (such as video players) prevent live subtitles from displaying.
• Certain applications located near the top of the screen and closed before running live captions will relaunch behind the live caption window located at the top. Use the system menu (ALT Spacebar) while the application has focus to move the application's window further down.
• When live subtitles are at the top, the very top of a maximized application (e.g., title bar window management buttons) cannot be reached by touch.

[Task Manager]

• When Task Manager is configured for dark mode, some tooltips do not accurately display preferred visual settings.

Dev channel releases are now called the "NI_RELEASE" or Nickel branch in preparation for major feature updates to Windows 11 later this year.

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