GPO on Desktop
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need to set a GPO which should restrict the user in saving files in desktop
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You can change permissions for the "desktop" folder . I don't know of a GPO for it off hand, but here's a site that's rather helpful with policies.
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@RoopanKumar said in GPO on Desktop:
need to set a GPO which should restrict the user in saving files in desktop
Why stop with the desktop, restrict saving anything to the machine at all so the user is forced to save to a network share.
This way there is no data to be lost, should the users computer fail.
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user need to save in their local drive they already have network share. this is for when some user system crashes we need to recovery files instead of that we are doing like this.
i have tired that GPO which gives clear desktop but here what we need is to restrict the users from saving
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Screenshot is from GPEdit.msc on a desktop but the application from your DC is the same.
User Config --> Admin Templates --> Desktop --> Desktop --> Prohibit Changes
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@jyates said in GPO on Desktop:
You can change permissions for the "desktop" folder . I don't know of a GPO for it off hand, but here's a site that's rather helpful with policies.
Thanks for the Link.
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@nadnerB said in GPO on Desktop:
Screenshot is from GPEdit.msc on a desktop but the application from your DC is the same.
User Config --> Admin Templates --> Desktop --> Desktop --> Prohibit Changes
The description of the GPO item does not seem to indicated that the user's can't save things to their desktop, only that they can't change Active Desktop type things.
Instead of preventing from saving to the desktop, how about redirecting it to their personal folder on a network share?
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@Dashrender no not to a shared path too
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@Dashrender we need to create a rule so that the user should not save their work on desktop that is the aim but the condition is there is no network path or any other space just they have to save in their other partition
got it
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@RoopanKumar said in GPO on Desktop:
@Dashrender we need to create a rule so that the user should not save their work on desktop that is the aim but the condition is there is no network path or any other space just they have to save in their other partition
got it
I hear what you are saying. I've never done it, so I'm not sure it can be done. You could setup a mandatory profile that users can't change, but I think that still allows them to save to the desktop as if it was a temporary directory, and upon reboot, the files are gone.
Not a great solution in your situation I'm sure.
