Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 – Missing Details in the Excel Sheet

For those who went to download the excel sheet that provide the list of new GPO settings from the link – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25250

You may need to comb through the whole excel sheet together with test environment to get a full picture of what the settings are.

Following are some that I went to sort out. Hope this will buy you some time.

File Name	Policy Setting Name (From Excel Sheet)	Policy Setting Name (From GPMC)	Scope
EdgeUI.admx	App switching	Turn off switching between recent apps	User
EdgeUI.admx	Charms	Search, Share, Start, Devices and Settings don’t appear when the mouse is pointing to the upper-right corner of the screen	User
EdgeUI.admx	WinX	Prevent Users from Replacing the Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the Menu they see when they right-click the lower-left corner or press the Windows Logo Key+X	User
StartMenu.admx	Default	Go to the desktop instead of start when signing in or when all the apps on a screen are closed	User
StartMenu.admx	Default app	List Desktop Apps First in the Apps View	User
StartMenu.admx	Default search	Search just apps from the Apps View	User
StartMenu.admx	Sort	Show the Apps view automatically when the user goes to Start	User
StartMenu.admx	Multimon	Show start on the display the user is using when they press the Windows Logo Key	User
UserProfiles.admx	User management of sharing user name	Turn Off The Advertising ID	Machine

 

Ok… I am still going through the whole excel sheet. Most of the new settings are for Windows Defender that will make it very manageable. But my environment is using McAfee. Guess I can only play it in my test environment!