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Prevent Consoles being Installed: HideConsole.mst

For command line, Group Policy or SMS installations, you can prevent users from installing any CA DLP console. HideConsole.mst deselects and removes the Management Console feature from the Custom Setup screen in the installation wizard.

Without this transform, if you deliberately excluded consoles from your CA DLP client machines, a user could use Add/Remove Programs to subsequently install the Administration console and, potentially, access sensitive information. Using this transform eliminates any such risk.

  1. Find this script in the \Support folder of your CA DLP distribution media: 
    HideConsole.vbs
  2. When you run the script, it creates the transform, HideConsole.mst.
  3. Copy the transform into the folder containing your administrative installation source image.