For your security, some settings are managed by your system administrator

When you connect Windows to a work or a school account, some of the settings may be managed by your IT admin. Your IT admin may apply these policies using administrative tools such as Group Policy, Azure AD, Intune etc. Under this condition, when a client tries to access a restricted feature, following message may appear:

For your security, some settings are managed by your system administrator.

An example of this message is shown in below screenshot.

For your security, some settings are managed by your system administrator

So if you are a client, and doesn’t know how to fix this, this article is for you. If your system is not connected to any network, you should be able to fix it yourself. Well, if you are already connected to work or school account, this can be fixed by your IT admin.

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For your security, some settings are managed by your system administrator

FIX for clients, not connected to work or school account

Registry Disclaimer: It is highly recommended to create a System Restore point before below mentioned steps.

Open administrative Command Prompt and execute these commands one-by-one:

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /v DisableAntiSpyware

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Policies" /f

Once you’re done with above commands, close Command Prompt and restart your system.

For your security, some settings are managed by your system administrator

FIX for clients connected to work or school account

If you’re getting this error in many features and you do not wish to be part of your network, you need to disconnect work or school account.

1. Open Settings.

2. Go to Accounts > Access work or school.

3. In the next page, locate your work or school account and click Disconnect.

For detailed steps, checkout this guide.

FIX for IT admins

If you want to fix this issue for a client in your network, you must check with the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP). This will help you to identify what policies are applied to the client. In case it client want to opt out from restriction to specific feature, you can revert the concerned policy settings. Make sure to update GP engine after you revert policies. Allow the affected client to restart or re-login so that changes you’ve made are effective.

Hope this helps!