Disable Access work or school in Settings / Accounts

Daniel Kaliel 1,346 Reputation points
2025-05-01T22:01:12.39+00:00

We use Windows 11 enterprise on our domain and lately users are getting notified to sign into their work or school account. We do not want this.

How can you disabled this button or make this entire section of settings inaccessible?

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  1. Jose Benjamin Solis Nolasco 3,511 Reputation points
    2025-05-02T15:29:27.0566667+00:00

    @Daniel Kaliel You have two options please be carefully doing this and use backup if need it and test it in a control environment first

    You can either configure it using Policies or regedit;

    1. Open Registry Editor: Run regedit with administrative privileges.
    2. Navigate to the Explorer Policies Key: Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer (Or, if you want to enforce it system-wide, you might use HKLM—but test first to ensure it produces the desired behavior.)
    3. Create or Edit the “SettingsPageVisibility” Value:
      • Create a new string value (if it doesn’t exist) called SettingsPageVisibility.
      • Set its value data to:
             hide:ms-settings:workplace
        
        Again, if that URI doesn’t work as expected in your environment, try an alternative based on your Windows 11 version.
    4. Restart or Log Off/In: Ensure that the changes take effect by having users log off or by restarting their session.
    5. Open the Group Policy Management Editor: Create or edit an existing Group Policy Object that targets your Windows 11 Enterprise devices.
    6. Navigate to the Policy: Go to: User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesControl PanelSettings Page Visibility
    7. Enable and Configure the Policy:
      • Enable the policy.
      • In the “Settings Page Visibility” text box, you can specify a “hide” expression to remove specific pages. Note: The exact URI for the “Access work or school” page may vary (some environments have used URI fragments like ms-settings:workplacesetup or similar). If the above doesn’t work as expected, try verifying the canonical URI for the page on your Windows 11 build. For example, you might enter:
             hide:ms-settings:workplace	
        
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  1. Kapil Arya 8,461 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-05-02T09:22:32.23+00:00

    Two things you can try IMO:

    1. Disable Workstation service in services snap-in.
    2. Downgrade Windows 11 Enterprise devices to Home edition for clients you want to restrict joining work/school accounts. You can first downgrade to Pro edition and then Home edition.

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