Would disabling network discovery yield the results you are trying to achieve?
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Removing network locations icon Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 23:11:57 +0000 Server 2012 and 2012 R2. Trying to remove the Network icon from any app's Open, Save or Save As: I have the following settings in a GPO: Computer: Hive HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Key path CLSID\{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}\ShellFolder Value name Attributes Value type REG_DWORD Value data 0xB0940064 (2962489444) Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key path SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}\ShellFolder Value name Attributes Value type REG_DWORD Value data 0xB0940064 (2962489444) User: Administrative Templates Start Menu and Taskbar Remove Network Connections from Start Menu – Enabled Remove Network Icon from Start Menu – Enabled Windows Components/File Explorer No Computers Near Me in Network Locations – Enabled No Entire Network in Network Locations - Enabled This is for RDS/XenApp so Loopback Replace is in play. GPO is linked to the appropriate OU. GPResult shows the policy is applied but still Network still shows. I have obviously missed a step somewhere. Any clues? Thanks Webster
