Modifying Group Policy From Command 1

[ClayTaco]

I'm trying to disable balloon notifications (so users don't install Windows 10 by accident) on several remote computers.
I'm hoping to accomplish this by running a simple command rather than copying a configuration file or logging in remotely.
Running the command remotely isn't the issue, finding a command to edit group policy is.
Any thoughts on the best way to accomplish this?

 

[xwb]

Try gpupdate

I don't know how it is used but I know it is one of the commands that our sys admins use.

 

[strongm]

gpupdate simply forces group policy to be updated. Or, as Microsoft put it: Refreshes local and Active Directory-based Group Policy settings, including security settings. For it to have any impact, the group policy itself would have to have been modified. Which is what the OP is asking - how can we change the group policy?

There are a couple of ways the requested affect can be achieved, although neither through simple commands (although the registry modifications can be 'run'). Rather than type a new set of guidance on ways that this can be achieved, here's a page that already provides some ideas (and the necessary registry merge files):

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11442-notifications-enable-disable-message-balloons.html

(I should point out that the Group Policy settings for this are held in the Administrative templates - which means they are also just simple registry modifications)

 

[ClayTaco]

Thanks strongm,
What I'm going to do is configure one Administrative template as I want it and then copy it to the other sites.