Preventing a Work or School account from being added to a Windows 10 workstation

Question

Hello there,

We have a computer lab and students log into teams accounts there. Students sit at different computers, so even if they log out of their teams account, it stays open on the computers and they see each other's documents. I need to prevent this. I think the problem will be solved if I prevent them from adding a work or school account. I also saw a person's problem similar to my problem and they were directed here...

I'm not trying to remove an account; I've seen numerous posts on how to remove an account, but I don't know how to PREVENT someone from adding a Work or School account under Settings Accounts. I'm a General Administrator in my organisation and I have a shared desktop where everyone tends to always log in to a limited Standard Windows profile, but when you start Office you can see that someone is logged in; it allows everyone to see or open their documents. So I'm constantly removing them by going into Accounts and disconnecting them under the Work or School account but people don't listen to me and keep logging into Office (or logging into their email through a browser) which always forces me to disconnect them and shout at them.

Is there a Group Policy I can enable to prevent them from adding work accounts or not?

Answer 1

Hello Emre Öztürk,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.
Is there a Group Policy I can enable to prevent them from adding work accounts or not?

A: Based on my knowledge, there is no Group Policy to prevent adding work account. It seems that as soon as the account is logged in to Windows and Teams, this account will appear under Settings\Emails and accounts\Accounts used by other apps.

You can try to set and let one specific account to sign in one specific machine.

For example:

User1->PC1

User2->PC2

User3->PC3

it stays open on the computers, and they see each other's documents.

A: You can block they store data on local disk, and you can create one shared path and create one folder (named using their user account name), only one can access one own folder.

For example:

User1->Access User1 folder

User2->Access User2 folder

User3->Access User3 folder

I hope the information above is helpful.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,

Daisy Zhou

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