Would you like to learn how to configure a group policy to enable the User Account Control feature? In this tutorial, we will show you how to enable UAC on Windows using a GPO.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7
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Tutorial GPO – Enable the User Account Control
On the domain controller, open the group policy management tool.
Create a new group policy.
Enter a name for the new group policy.
In our example, the new GPO was named: MY-GPO.
On the Group Policy Management screen, expand the folder named Group Policy Objects.
Right-click your new Group Policy Object and select the Edit option.
On the group policy editor screen, expand the Computer configuration folder and locate the following item.
Access the folder named Security options.
Enable the item named User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation.
Enable the item named User Account Control: Only elevate UI Access applications that are installed in secure locations.
Enable the item named User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode.
Enable the item named User Account Control: Switch to secure desktop when prompting for elevation.
Enable the item named User Account Control: Virtualize file and registry write failures to per-user locations.
Enable the item named User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin approval mode.
Select the option Prompt for consent on the secure desktop.
Enable the item named User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users.
Select the option Prompt for credentials.
To save the group policy configuration, you need to close the Group Policy editor.
Congratulations! You have finished the GPO creation.
Tutorial – Applying the GPO to enable UAC
On the Group policy management screen, you need to right-click the Organizational Unit desired and select the option to link an existent GPO.
In our example, we are going to link the group policy named MY-GPO to the root of the domain.
After applying the GPO you need to wait for 10 or 20 minutes.
During this time the GPO will be replicated to other domain controllers.
Reboot a computer and verify the UAC configuration settings.
In our example, we enabled UAC on all domain computers using a GPO.
