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.

• Moved by Rob Caplan [MSFT]Microsoft employee Monday, May 04, 2015 3:21 PM group policy question

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

• Edited by britishdhez Tuesday, May 05, 2015 3:55 AM

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

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 Wednesday, May 13, 2015 4:43 PM

Hi

You must misunderstood my last reply. I am afraid that there might be no way to enable these devices by group policy, the group policy you mentioned and the method in my last reply is actually about a platform/feature which provide by Microsoft to let user can manager these devices by using GUI. Disable this feature not disable sensor so users cannot access these devices settings by using Windows, however some programs may still access information from a sensor when it's disabled from Windows Location Provider.

Regards,

D. Wu