[gptalk] Re: Hide only Administrative tools on Control Panel
- From: "Igor Sundic" <igor.sundic@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:15:38 +0200
Pahkaj, the GPO restriction policy sounds good to me.
On 25/09/2008, Pankaj Bhakta <bhakta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Igor,
> Many thanks for your reply but excuse me for not being able to understand
> what you meant by 'deny access to your users on the file system level '.
>
> All I could think is a GPO with a Software restriction policy with a path
> rule as follows:
> %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools - Disallowed
>
> Kindly let me know if that is what you meant or something else.
>
> Our domain is Win 2003 and Win XP SP2.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pankaj
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Igor Sundic <igor.sundic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 September, 2008 8:45:26 PM
> Subject: [gptalk] Re: Hide only Administrative tools on Control Panel
>
> Hi Pankaj,
>
> This one is just a folder in All Users\Start Menu\Programs so you may deny
> access to your users on the file system level.
>
>
> On 24/09/2008, Pankaj Bhakta <bhakta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am having a GPO called Additional desktopLockdown that does few things
>> as below:
>>
>> - Disable add/remove Printer
>> - Disable mapping of network drive
>> - Disable regedit from running
>> - Turn autoplay off
>> - Remove Add or Remove Program from control panel
>>
>> Now I intend to hide the Administrative tools on the Control Panel.
>> Found that to hide an applet, it can be done from the User Configuration /
>> Administrative Templates / Control Panel - Hide specific Control Panel
>> applet.
>>
>> We also have to type the filename.cpl of the specific control panel
>> applet that we wish to hide. I could find the file names of all the applets
>> from MS KB but unfortunately I could not find any file name for the
>> Administrative Tools.
>>
>> Is there a different approach for this one.
>>
>> Kindly advise.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Pankaj
>>
>>
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