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Microsoft has a habit of flipping settings back to stock, but so far as I know, this has never happened for group policy. I've been using GPOs to reliably flip
by eganist 4y ago
Microsoft has a habit of flipping settings back to stock, but so far as I know, this has never happened for group policy. I've been using GPOs to reliably flip things off in Windows 10
Can't speak to 11 but I imagine it's the same; GPOs are one of the few things Microsoft wants to make sure never break with an update given the market that uses them.
- gerdesj 4y agoWell yes and no. Did you know you can't set your login wallpaper without an enterprise or education license via GPO? It won't tell you that's the problem when it doesn't work but it is at least documented in the GPO itself - so you need to notice that a pretty basic feature is POSH license only. I'm one of those rare people who actually read messages and docs and hence I eventually spotted it when roughly 20 people diagnosing a snag had not. I'm also the PHB (actually I have very little hair) so, in your face: Dilbert. Features that are offered but silently fail is wankery of the first order to add to your flipping back of settings - hello again Edge you fucking numpty!
- slowmovintarget 4y agoI can't tell you how relieved I was when Windows Update pronounced my gaming desktop as not cool enough for Windows 11.
- Nextgrid 4y agoI've heard that TPMs are mandatory for Windows 11 - if so, those can typically be disabled in the BIOS and this can be used to prevent unattended upgrades.
- vt240 4y agoYeah, I really feel for people here. I've been maintaining GPOs since Windows 2003 in our small business, and I never run into any of the issues most of these posts are dealing with. I download the policy files, flip the settings around so they work for our employees, and forget what most users have to deal with... If there's not someone in the loop, dealing with the problems.