Windows 10: Some settings are managed by your organisation.

Discus and support Some settings are managed by your organisation. in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hi there When I open Privacy options and go to the general tab at the top in red I see 'Some settings are managed by your organisation.' I do... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by zooburner, Sep 11, 2015.

  1. zooburner Win User

    Some settings are managed by your organisation.


    Hi there

    When I open Privacy options and go to the general tab at the top in red I see

    'Some settings are managed by your organisation.'

    I do not belong to an organisation and its only on a home network and is a copy of Windows 10 home, any ideas what it could mean?

    Zoo

    :)
     
    zooburner, Sep 11, 2015
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  2. Sumit Dhiman2, Sep 11, 2015
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  3. *Some settings are managed by your organisation

    *Some settings are managed by your organisation

    Moved from: Windows / Windows 10 / Install, upgrade, & activate
     
    MichaelArdley, Sep 11, 2015
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  4. Some settings are managed by your organisation.

    Some registry and group policy changes will give you this message and prevent some setting changes through the settings menu.
     
    fracking4oil, Sep 11, 2015
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  5. mrgeek Win User
    If you are the administrator, you can simply ignore and continue, like on the below page

    Some settings are managed by your organisation. [​IMG]
     
    mrgeek, Sep 11, 2015
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  6. dalchina New Member
    Hi, no solution, I'm afraid; I had this happen yesterday, and it stopped me using Cortana- Cortana offered a message similar to the one you posted. I also found- amongst others- that Privacy, Feedback & Diagnostics, Diagnostic & Usage data was greyed out. You could check these.

    Exactly what is disabled on your system may well depend on what setting has been changed.

    I had a look around and found the same message reported numerous times, by a lot of puzzled people. One or two suggestions or thoughts here and there as you may have seen.

    Rather than waste more time I took the coward's way out, and tried System Restore. Oh- no- failed to complete for unknown reason - some file couldn't be accessed. Ok, sledgehammer- I restored a disk image and then redid things from there.

    So far one rumour does not seem to be true.. some reports suspected a Windows update. And bear in mind, some reported this with pre-RTM preview builds.
     
    dalchina, Sep 11, 2015
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  7. dalchina New Member
    I just remembered: some have resolved this by doing this:
    "Settings" -> "Privacy" -> "Feedback & diagnostics" -> "Diagnostics and usage data" - set to "Basic".
    Change it to "Enhanced" or higher.

    (I couldn't do this, 'cos that button was greyed out, so as I said, I couldn't resolve it!)
     
    dalchina, Sep 11, 2015
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  8. Some settings are managed by your organisation.

    graystreet, Sep 11, 2015
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  9. dalchina New Member
    Hi graystreet, I used exactly that between a point when I didn't have the problem and when I did. I'm just wondering if using that actually caused the problem, as it attempts to disable some features.

    But I would be surprised if so; I assume it was tested, unless some combination of settings gives rise to the problem. I also changed some settings manually, so I've no idea which led to the 'company policy' restrictions. I did not do anything with the Group Policy editor, only the settings GUI.

    What I can say is that this time, having restored the image, and NEITHER used O&O shutup nor fiddled with privacy settings, I haven't encountered the 'Some settings are managed by your organisation.' message, nor Cortana complaining about being restricted by company policy.
     
    dalchina, Sep 11, 2015
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  10. Hmm not sure, there is an option to return everything to "factory defaults" in the app. I just fiddled around with it and I could get Cortana to give the "Cortana is disabled by Company Policy" message, I then used the app to set everything back to default and the message went away and Cortana worked again, not that I particularly want it to *Biggrin
     
    graystreet, Sep 11, 2015
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  11. dalchina New Member
    Ah, I see...now I understand why you mention it. A very good thing to know! Could offer a good many people puzzled people a way forward, as this problem is reported in a number of places. I haven't come across such an option in 'Settings' - I would hope there was.
     
    dalchina, Sep 11, 2015
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  12. I have the red message problem too. I think it happened after I used one of these W10 stop-spying programs, too. I set my W10 to ask me before getting updates but this also asks me before every Windows Defender anti-virus update, which is one or two times a day and is so annoying. Anti-virus updates should always be automatic.
     
    squawksarah, Sep 27, 2015
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  13. lx07 Win User

    Some settings are managed by your organisation.

    If you change the feedback to MS to "None" it will not work. If you change it back to "Automatic" or "Full" then you are OK.

    If you run some little script to stop MS "spying" on you then your "insider" status will be invalidated. As an insider you agree to MS "spying" on you. That is the deal. Specifically sending them (the limited) information you agreed to when you signed up.
     
  14. I changed the feedback to full but it makes no difference to the red message.

    Well I am not an 'insider' but a normal Win10 user. Not sure why you put the word "spying" in full quotes as though they are not really spying on us. Because they REALLY are spying on us. To suggest otherwise comes across as rather disengenuous. There are 3 pages of spying options that one has to uncheck to stop Microsoft taking all manner of information from our computers. It is pretty outrageous that they added all this spyware in Windows 10. And I am not an anti-microsoft user at all. I don't write MS as 'M$' but I do think these spying options should not be activated as default at install time. Personal information is the latest money-making craze in the commercial world and Microsoft seem to have bought into this rubbish. A few years ago Google streeview were shamed for recording all WiFi information that was password-unprotected. They had no reason to do this and the only people who would find such details of use are hackers and dubious types. But they created a massive database of UK non-passworded personal WiFis anyway. Microsoft are bordering on this sort of dubious behaviour with all these information gathering options. If they were put onto your PC via a website or third-party app you'd rightly call them trojans and virues. imho.

    So I hope Microsoft will see sense and realise that privacy is going to be an important commodity in the 21st century.
     
    squawksarah, Sep 27, 2015
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  15. dalchina New Member
    Detailed discussion here, including possible registry fix (actually the policy setting) and language settings.

    Cortana is disabled by company policy?

    Note this is around August...

    And here are the group policy instructions: (Group policy editor is not available to home users)

    • Search and open gpedit.msc
    • Locate Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Search
    • Scroll down to Search and find "Allow Cortana". Right-click to "Edit"
    • Disable
    • Search the Command Prompt with elevated privileges by right-clicking and "Run as Administrator"
    • Execute gpupdate /force in the Command Prompt.
    • Go to Task Manager and end the "Cortana" task.
    • Cortana is disabled as a matter of company policy and will not run in the background, even when disabled.

    - so here's the short registry equivalent
    For Home Edition users that may not have Group Policy editor you can do this via the following registry key:

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
    Value: AllowCortana
    Change to 0 to Disable Cortana, 1 to Enable.

    You may have to reboot for it to take effect.
     
    dalchina, Sep 27, 2015
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