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Windows 11 home 22000.318. Group policy client service is running. Yet the Home version doesnt support group policy? What if I place group policy settings in C:\WIndows\System32\GroupPolicy directory? Will the service that is running on 11 home pick those up and apply them?
Would be nice to apply local group policies on Home....
One issue I face is how to export / import 'settings'. For Windows 11 professional I can use LGPO (local group policy). For Windows 11 home I can either send my data into the MS cloud and replicate it that way or use 3rd party software. Neither of these is a reasonable solution that works in my environment. Whereas LGPO does.
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I understand your concern and this is the behavior by design as Windows Home edition is not for the production enviroment.
However, you may share your feedback using the Feedback Hub app.
Home edition of the Windows 11 and any other versions of Windows doesn't support the Group Policy and even if you try open start and search for gpedit and try to open it, it won't let you to use it because of the edition of Windows. You may try to copy it but the expected result is , it shouldn't work. It is not expected to use enterprise features like Group Policy in the Home edition. To use Group Policy you should use versions like Pro or Enterprise.
Thank you for the disclaimer.
Welcome, glad it was helpful.
Yes. I understand GPO is not part of Home. But what if I wanter to turn set NTLM authentication levels to something like NTLM2 only which is standard practice? Or disable anonymous enumeration of the SAM? Or move 'everyone' from access this computer from the network? These are basic security practices which as far as I can see leave the Home user at risk.
Thank you for your feedback.
