Hello Connor,
You're welcome. I'm glad to help.
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John DeV
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Cannot Access Control Panel as Administrator after Enabling a Group Policy I Made
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Anonymous
Hello there,
I have recently been configuring a Virtual Windows 2019 server for school that runs as a domain service.
We were instructed to install ADDS and then configure our own Group Policy.
One of the aspects of the Group Policy was doing the following:
Edit "My GPO" > User Config > Policies > Admin Templates > Control Panel > Prohibit access to Control Panel and PC settings (Set to 'Enabled')
While the intention of this I believe was to block other users of the domain from accessing the Control Panel, I now find myself unable to access the Control Panel even as Administrator, receiving the error upon opening Control Panel of:
"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."
I understand why it's blocking me, as I enabled it to do that, however given that I am the Administrator I was quite confused as to why it would still block me.
So I was wondering how I can fix this so that I, as Administrator/Domain Admin, can be able to access the Control Panel without these restrictions applying to me as Admin.
Thanks
- C
Windows for home | Windows 10 | Security and privacy
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Anonymous
2021-07-27T10:34:56+00:00 Thank-you for the recommended forums, I appreciate the assistance!
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John DeV 164.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor2021-07-27T08:51:07+00:00 Hello Connor,
I'm John an Independent Advisor and a Windows user like you. I'll be happy to assist you today.
I want to apologize that this is just a consumer forum. Due to the scope of your question involving Windows Server 2019, I recommend posting your query on Microsoft Site Q&A which is a technical community platform where most of the members were IT professionals that would greatly help you with the issue. They have IT experts there that can assist you better especially about Windows Servers, Active Directory and Group Policy configurations, etc.
Microsoft Site Q&A
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/products/
Windows Server 2019
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/topics...
Kind regards,
John DeV
Independent Advisor