Disable Audio With Group Policy

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  Hi,

   

  Thanks for the post.

   

  From your description, I understand that you want to block all the sound cards in the domain environment.

   

  Please understand there is no such kind of group policy to block the sound cards.

   

  However, as a workaround, we could disable the Windows Audio Service to make the sound card cannot work properly.

   

  Now let’s try the following method to make it.

   

  1.    Create a BAT file

   

  *********************

  @echo off

   

  sc config Audiosrv start= disabled

   

  *********************

   

  2.    After that, let’s assign a Computer Startup Script to apply it.

   

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754995.aspx

   

  However, Local Admin on client machines could start the Windows Audio service manually. You could remove users from Local Admin by using Restricted Group:

   

  [Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Restricted Group]

   

  Hope this helps.

  Wednesday, June 3, 2009 1:14 AM
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  Hello Amir
  
  This will deny access/disable sound and multimedia, I hope this is what you are looking for.
  
  User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Control Panel, on right panel, double click Hide Specified Control Panel applets, click enable, click show, Add, then type Mmsys.cpl and apply.

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  Isaac Oben MCITP:EA, MCSE

  Wednesday, June 3, 2009 1:22 AM
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  2 posts for the same topic....
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/de-DE/winserverGP/thread/4d40d1aa-8ced-4322-8171-6384ae682feb

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  Patrick

  Wednesday, June 3, 2009 6:34 AM
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  Hi,

   

  Thanks for the post.

   

  From your description, I understand that you want to block all the sound cards in the domain environment.

   

  Please understand there is no such kind of group policy to block the sound cards.

   

  However, as a workaround, we could disable the Windows Audio Service to make the sound card cannot work properly.

   

  Now let’s try the following method to make it.

   

  1.    Create a BAT file

   

  *********************

  @echo off

   

  sc config Audiosrv start= disabled

   

  *********************

   

  2.    After that, let’s assign a Computer Startup Script to apply it.

   

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754995.aspx

   

  However, Local Admin on client machines could start the Windows Audio service manually. You could remove users from Local Admin by using Restricted Group:

   

  [Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Restricted Group]

   

  Hope this helps.

  
  Hi Miles Zhang
  tanks for your help
  but it doesn't work
  I don't know why

  Wednesday, June 3, 2009 11:03 AM
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  Hello Amir
  
  This will deny access/disable sound and multimedia, I hope this is what you are looking for.
  
  User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Control Panel, on right panel, double click Hide Specified Control Panel applets, click enable, click show, Add, then type Mmsys.cpl and apply.

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  Isaac Oben MCITP:EA, MCSE

  
  Dear Isaac Oben
  
  tanks for your help
  
  but it doesn't work
  
  I don't know why
  

  Wednesday, June 3, 2009 11:50 AM
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  Hi,

   

  Thanks for the update.

   

  Please be assured that we need to run gpupdate /force command on the client machines after applying the group policy on the server side.

   

  After that, please run gpresult /z command on the client machines to check if the specific group policy has been applied successfully.

   

  If not, please check if the Group Policy has been applied to the appropriate OU or domain.

   

  Meanwhile, please collect the Setup&Performance version of MPSReport from the server machine.

   

  a. Download the MPS Report Tool from the following link:

  http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/b/1/bb139fcb-4aac-4fe5-a579-30b0bd915706/MPSRPT_SETUPPerf.EXE

   

  b. After the download is complete, double-click this " MPSRPT_SETUPPerf.EXE" file. Then a CAB file will be generated called %COMPUTERNAME%_MPSReports.CAB. For example, if your computer name is "MyComputer", this CAB file will be named "MyComputer_MPSReports.CAB".

   

  c. Open My Computer, browse to the "%systemroot%\MPSReports\Setup\Logs\CAB" folder. You can find the CAB file above and please send it to me.

   

  Please send the files to me directly at tfwst@microsoft.com

   

  Hope this helps.

  • Marked as answer by Miles Zhang Monday, June 8, 2009 1:22 AM

  Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:48 AM