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Disable "New>Shortcut" using Group Policy
Hello, I have tired looking on google for information on this but with no success.
I want to be able to lock down certain user accounts in Group Policy to disable the ability of creating short cuts from the file menu and by right clicking. We have important hard drives hidden, however to get past this users are creating short cuts to the c: drive etc.
So ideally I was looking for a solution using group policy to disable the ability of creating new shortcuts. Any ideas?
I want to be able to lock down certain user accounts in Group Policy to disable the ability of creating short cuts from the file menu and by right clicking. We have important hard drives hidden, however to get past this users are creating short cuts to the c: drive etc.
So ideally I was looking for a solution using group policy to disable the ability of creating new shortcuts. Any ideas?
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if the drive is local (C:,D: etc)on the machine you can change the security settings of the drive to make the files not accssible, they can view the drive but can not browse the files.
if the drive is a network share(\\targetmachine\C$" mapped as drive then it is difficult to stop them from viewing the file, once you map the drive you will not be able to set the security settings for the same
if the drive is a network share(\\targetmachine\C$" mapped as drive then it is difficult to stop them from viewing the file, once you map the drive you will not be able to set the security settings for the same
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Its not a local drive its a network drive. However it is not mapped. The login script is called which is stored on the network drive. If there is an error on the login script it will display a message along with the location of the file. Now most users wont think another thing of it, however there are some users of our network who go out of their way to hack and break into stuff. I would like to prevent this from happening
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It has fixed the current problem but not prevented users from creating short cuts
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