Mute sound on student machines across school

[PEO]

Morning,

 

Does anyone know of a way to mute the sound on all the student machines across the school using gpo? We're having issues with the students so we want to stop them from listening to music for a couple of weeks.

[halbaradkenafin]

You could use GPP to set the Windows Audio service to disabled. That's the quickest way I can think of, plus it's easy to reverse by just changing the setting to Automatic again.

[fairm010]

We did this once, boy did it annoy them.

 

We used this as a logon script:

 

set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 
oShell.run"%SystemRoot%\System32\SndVol.exe" 
WScript.Sleep 1500 
oShell.SendKeys"{TAB} " ' Tab to the mute and press space
oShell.SendKeys"%{F4}"  ' ALT F4 to exit the app.

[halbaradkenafin]

Alternatively if you've got Impero just hit the button in there that disables sound for the student group.