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SOLVED: Disable Restore Previous Versions or Shadow Copies using a Group Policy Object (GPO)

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Disable Restore previous versions or Shadow Copies using GPO

Often Domain Administrators need to set policies to protect files from deleting or restoring from a shadow copy. You can configure the group policy to prevent users from accidentally restoring files and folders from the shadow copy.

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The policy to set is:

  • USER CONFIGURATION >  POLICIES > ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES > WINDOWS COMPONENTS > FILE EXPLORER > PREVIOUS VERSIONS
  • set Prevent Restoring Remote Previous Versions to ENABLED
  • set Hide previous versions list for local files to ENABLED
Disable Restore from Previous Version or Shadow Copy Using GPO

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