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Disable Bluetooth functionality via Group Policy

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Thursday, April 7, 2016 11:49 PM

Hello.

Could anyone help me? I have searched for solutions but so far nothing has paid off.

I would like to disable Bluetooth support via a policy, but only for a particular user (to prevent theft of information).

Is there a way I can achieve that?

Thank you.

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Friday, April 8, 2016 3:08 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/ad0b44c2-437c-449e-8a4b-5db55254108f/how-to-disable-bluetooth-device-per-security-group-via-gpo-or-logon-wmi-or-vbs-scripts?forum=winserverGP

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/0a04b41b-05a8-4d7b-9ae0-212137cc4af7/restrict-bluetooth-file-transfer?forum=winserverGP

You may try DeviceLock also

http://www.devicelock.com/

S.Sengupta, Windows Experience MVP

Friday, April 8, 2016 3:28 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote

Hi LauFlorin,

So here you would like to block the Bluetooth usage just for one user, right?

You may take a look at the thread below:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/ad0b44c2-437c-449e-8a4b-5db55254108f/how-to-disable-bluetooth-device-per-security-group-via-gpo-or-logon-wmi-or-vbs-scripts?forum=winserverGP

Based on what I know, with group policy only we could just disable the device usage, or the driver install for all users, not for particular one;

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731387(v=ws.10).aspx

Or as suggested in the thread, you may consider to write a scripts with the Devcon command, for the user which you would like to block the bluetooth usage, use the disable; for others, switch to enable.

You may also consider to take use of some 3rd-party software.

Regards

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