Windows 8 In Depth

Controlling Snap-Ins with Group Policies

If you share Windows 8 with other people, you can control which snap-ins they’re allowed to use, and you can even prevent users from adding snap-ins to the MMC.

The latter is the simpler of the two options, so let’s begin with that. The MMC has an author mode that enables you to add snap-ins to it. If you prevent the MMC from entering author mode, you prevent users from adding snap-ins. You can do this using a group policy. Note, too, that this policy also prevents users from entering author mode for those snap-ins that can be opened directly (from the Start menu Search box, from the Run dialog box, from the command line, from Administrative Tools, and so on). Here are the steps to follow:

1. Open the ...