Removing/Hiding Known Folders - Library settings

[roandr]

Does UEM have a quick way of removing those Public folders in Libraries?

[deep184]

Hey,

Try configuring an ADMX-based policy for Components\Windows Explorer\ Disable Known Folders.

You will need the GUID of the Known Folders which is available here: KNOWNFOLDERID (Windows)

Let me know how it goes.

Thanks

[roandr]

deep184; As far as I know that will only stop the libraries from being created. It will not remove existing ones from users explorer instance.

edugeek.net have an article describing how to removes some of the "known folders" from explorer (custom ADM). Would this method remove existing items from users instance of explorer? Since I don't want to remove/hide all libraries I'm still doing some research... sporadically. I'm not sure what values I would have to use to hide ex. Public Documents.

Ex. hiding libraries in it's entirety with custom ADM:

CATEGORY "Windows 7 Explorer Navigation Items"
     POLICY "Hide Libraries"
          KEYNAME "Software\Classes\CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\ShellFolder"
          VALUENAME Attributes
          VALUEON NUMERIC 2962227469
          VALUEOFF NUMERIC 2961178893
     END POLICY
END CATEGORY;

[roandr · Accepted solution]

I might have found a solution.

Again, for the sake of posterity I'll post how I did it here. At least the short version.

The solution is based on an article by Mark Swinkels (http://markswinkels.nl/2013/01/how-to-remove-public-libraries-in-windows-server-2008-r2-using-res-wo...).

Edited versions of *.library-ms files are being delivered to the users %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries folder, at logon, with the help of VMWare UEM:

Note1: As an added benefit the "Restore default libraries" (by right clicking Libraries) does not reverse the change.

Note2: The public libraries are only "hidden".

Regards
Ronny Andreassen