Hiding Icons In File Explorer (Win 10 / Server 2016)

[RichB]

Good Afternoon,

 

Im starting to lose the will to live with this now so thought I would sign in for some much needed help. Please see the image attached.

 

I am trying to disable OR hide the below icons from file explorer for an RDS farm using server 2016 (RemoteApp) but most GPO's I have used so far have come from windows 10 'How To Guides'.

 

So I am pretty sure you guys in the Education field will have already locked down your win 10 machines / networks using the group policies I'm searching for so any help would be GREAT...

 

Edited April 30, 2018 by RichB

[sted]

well c drive is easy

gpo

user config/admin templates/windows components/file explorer hide these specified drives in my computer

 

the others i just redirect back to their user area so ive not looked at hiding sorry

[RichB]

Sorry C drive is already done as well.

 

Thank you though

[clareq]

Group Policy preferences, at the user level - hide %userprofile%\documents, %userprofile%\desktop, %userprofile%\downloads, %userprofile\favorites etc. I occasionally get an error with the 3d objects - I think the space in the filename causes issues, but the others don't show.

[Oaktech]

I think your best bet is to remove quick access completely...

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/191517-group-policy-disable-quick-access-windows-10-a.html

[RichB]

Thanks for the responses guys. Still seems so strange that MS don't have a simple set of RDS lock down GPO's. I'm not best pleased to / or that confident going to low levels in regedit this late into the project and with a 200k RDS system as well.

 

Its been to UAT, and QA so these will just a few bells and whistles!