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Mastering Windows Group Policy
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Mastering Windows Group Policy

by Jordan Krause
November 2018
Beginner
408 pages
10h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Prohibiting access to the Control Panel and Settings

As you well know, almost anything about a Windows computer can be manipulated through a combination of the Control Panel and the Settings menu in the newer operating systems. Allowing users to have access to these utilities is a security risk, because they typically have no valid reason for accessing and changing these kinds of settings. Let's find out whether there is a quick way to completely disable access to both the Control Panel, as well as Settings for your domain-joined PCs:

User Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | Control Panel | Prohibit access to Control Panel and PC settings

Look at that! There is a single user configuration setting that looks like it is going ...

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