Windows 10 Group Policy Help Required

[TechieJI]

I have recently taken over the IT support of a Primary School, the school purchased 30 new laptops from one company who never actually considered the server configuration and Group Policy. The previous IT Support company refused to assist the school in protest on them not purchasing the laptop through them, and the company that sold them now want to charge additional professional services days to sort Group Policy which I believe they should have considered/completed from day one.

 

As a result I have 30 new Windows 10 laptops with no Group Policies configured, I am reluctant to allow the student to use them as no restrictions.

 

The school currently have a Windows Server 2008 R2 physical server, I was wondering whether anyone would be willing to assist with me perhaps sharing their Group Policies for students please? I am keen to get the laptops in use asap whilst ensuring they cannot access anything and everything!

[sted]

do they not have any policies in place for existing users/pcs as is as windows 10 ones are not massively different from windows 7 settings there are a few mainly pc settings that you may want to alter but user settings should pretty much work except in specific circumstances like mandatory profiles

[TechieJI]

do they not have any policies in place for existing users/pcs as is as windows 10 ones are not massively different from windows 7 settings there are a few mainly pc settings that you may want to alter but user settings should pretty much work except in specific circumstances like mandatory profiles

Thanks for reply Sted, there are currently Windows 7 Group Policies in place, however the students use mandatory profiles. I have logged on as a student and can access for instance C:\, add/remove programs, browse network to look for network shares. It may well be the Windows 7 group policies are not that good either!

[tmoon-mint]

Put the Windows 10 ADMX templates into your central store in SYSVOL then you can manage Windows 10 properly from your 2008R2 server. As above however I would expect most if not all policies applying to Windows 7 to also work on Windows 10.

 

Is it completely out of the question to reimage the laptops with Windows 7?