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Some options don't show when user "User or Computer" is selected? #75

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zdat opened this issue Sep 3, 2023 · 1 comment
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Some options don't show when user "User or Computer" is selected? #75

zdat opened this issue Sep 3, 2023 · 1 comment
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zdat commented Sep 3, 2023

The user version of "Turn off handwriting personalization data sharing" doesn't show when "User or Computer" is selected.

This isn't how it's supposed to work right? "User or Computer" is supposed to show all policies?

Accidentally came across it. Not sure if there are any others. Quite annoying as there might be policies I missed now.

@Fleex255 Fleex255 added the enhancement A request for additional functionality label Sep 3, 2023
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Fleex255 commented Sep 3, 2023

For settings that apply to both users and computers when User or Computer is selected in the upper left:

  • If the user and computer configurations are the same, (2) is shown in the State column, e.g. "Not Configured (2)"
  • If the policy is enabled for one but disabled for the other, the State is shown as "Mixed"
  • Otherwise, the policy is configured only for one type of object and that type's abbreviation is the only one shown in parentheses, e.g. "Enabled (C)"

I suspect you encountered the last case. You therefore didn't miss a configured policy, but there was no way to see without opening the setting that it was also available but not configured for the other section.

While this is the currently expected behavior, I agree that it is confusing, so I'm marking this as an enhancement for the future.

As for why this one policy gets the multi-section UI (2) but others in the same category appear twice: the ADMX has independent user and computer copies of the others, but marks this one's single definition for both sections. Perhaps Microsoft created this policy later than the others in its category and changed the convention.

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