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Prevent Unauthorized Installation of Consoles: HideConsole.vbs

For command line, Group Policy or SMS installations, you can prevent users from installing any 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 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.

Run the HideConsole.vbs script to create the HideConsole.mst transform. Copy the transform into the folder containing your administrative installation source image.