How do you force the location sensors to be enabled using Group Policy ?

I want to force enable all sensors on every domain computers in the domain, there is only a group policy to force disable the sensors not enable them, so how do you do that ? I wrote a small piece of software that will send us the location of every devices every 30 secs so we can see in realtime every device on a maps.

May 4th, 2015 3:00pm

I think only disable option

the default will be enable, you can enable and disable via Windows feature

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/8045-location-turn-app-access-off-windows-8-a.html
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May 5th, 2015 3:47am

I want to enable it by GPO and users to not be able to disable it, it's corporate computers they don't have a right to privacy on those computers !
May 5th, 2015 10:32am

you can hide control panel + the location setting option

Location Settings

  • Canonical name: Microsoft.LocationSettings
  • GUID: {E9950154-C418-419e-A90A-20C5287AE24B}
  • Supported OS: Windows 8, Windows 8.1
  • Module name: @%SystemRoot%\System32\SensorsCpl.dll,-1

or just prevent user to access control panel

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May 6th, 2015 1:36am

Hi

Group policy is used to control system behavior but not specific device. The disable group policy you mentioned actually only can disable Windows Location Provider feature in Windows but not the location sensors. Some programs may still access information from a sensor when it's disabled from Windows Location Provider.

As suggested by britishdhez if you don't want your users disable location sensors from this feature, you could hide location settings from control panel.

Also you could push following regstry entry to turn off location platform.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\SENSOR\OVERRIDES\{BFA794E4-F964-4FDB-9OF6-51O56BFE4B44}

SensorPermissionState = 0.

it will turn off location platform on local machine.

Regards,

D. Wu

May 6th, 2015 2:56am

you can hide control panel + the location setting option

Location Settings

  • Canonical name: Microsoft.LocationSettings
  • GUID: {E9950154-C418-419e-A90A-20C5287AE24B}
  • Supported OS: Windows 8, Windows 8.1
  • Module name: @%SystemRoot%\System32\SensorsCpl.dll,-1

or just prevent user to access control panel

  • Edited by britishdhez Wednesday, May 06, 2015 5:31 AM
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May 6th, 2015 5:31am

Ok, you either don't read or don't understand... I don't want it off it want it FORCED ON ALWAYS... So I can track all our device ALWAYS. And if possible remove the warning message in the System Tray area (your location has been accessed)... Those are business machines so I can spy on them as I wish and I don't want the user to know so they don't change their habits so we can identify the one sending information to competitors, etc...

  • Edited by ClementM 14 hours 39 minutes ago
May 13th, 2015 12:42pm

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