Windows Group Policies

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Notices

This document is for informational purposes. It represents Any Desk's current product and practices as of the date of issue
of this document, which are subject to change without notice. Customers are responsible for making their own independent
assessment of the information in this document and any use of AnyDesk's products or services. This document does not
create any warranties, representations, contractual commitments, conditions, or assurances from AnyDesk, its affiliates,
suppliers or licensors. The responsibilities and liabilities of AnyDesk to its customers is controlled by agreements, and this
document is not part of, nor does it modify, any agreement between AnyDesk and its customers.

AnyDesk is designed to be connected to and to communicate via a network interface. Customer shall establish and maintain
any appropriate measures (such as but not limited to the application of authentication measures, encryption of data, etc.)
to protect the product, the network, its system and the interface against any kind of security breaches, unauthorized access,
interference, intrusion, leakage and/or theft of data or information. AnyDesk is not liable for damages and/or losses related
to such security breaches, any unauthorized access, interference, intrusion, leakage and/or theft of data or information.

In order to protect plants, systems, machines and networks against cyber threats, it is necessary to implement – and
continuously maintain – a holistic, state-of-the-art security concept. AnyDesk provides such concept. You are responsible
for preventing unauthorized access to your systems, machines and networks which should only be connected to an
enterprise network or the internet if and to the extent such a connection is necessary and only when appropriate security
measures (e.g. firewalls and/or network segmentation) are in place. For additional information, please contact visit
https://anydesk.com. AnyDesk recommends applying updates and to use the latest available version. Use of versions that
are no longer supported, and failure to apply the latest updates may increase your exposure to cyber threats.

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Contents

Notices............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1

Requirements and installation ............................................................................................................................................... 3

Template structure...................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Template usage............................................................................................................................................................................ 3

Modification for usage with a Custom Client .................................................................................................................. 4

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Windows Group Policies Template – How-To

Version: Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista and above

Requirements and installation

AnyDesk uses the .admx template along with the .adml localization file introduced in Windows Server 2008 and
Windows Vista respectively. Therefore you need at least Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista to use this
template.

The template only provides an English localization. Other languages will be added later. Use the Group Policy
Management Console to create group policies and apply the settings you want the clients/machines to adopt.

See Microsoft's documentation to find out where to store this template:

How to create and manage the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Templates in Windows

Template structure

The template's root folder (within the Group Policy Management Console) is named AnyDesk. It contains the
data for standard clients and additional folders containing data of other variants of the AnyDesk client. These
additional folders are named according to the corresponding prefix.

Note: Read the last chapter to get more information about the prefix.

These three folders and the AnyDesk root folder itself contain two other folders each, Defaults and Overrides.
These two in turn contain the actual settings that can be set up for the corresponding variant of the AnyDesk
client.

Note: It is important to keep that structure since AnyDesk is relying on it.

Default options will be used as a fallback in case there are no other settings present, for example in AnyDesk's
config files. If present and defined, defaults set via group policies override AnyDesk built-in defaults.

Override options will override every AnyDesk setting available for a specific AnyDesk client except those
settings built into the client itself (using custom overrides in the Custom Client generator).

Template usage

To activate certain settings the corresponding group policy must be enabled explicitly inside the folder
structure described earlier. Some options require to choose a value from a list, others expect a string, numbers
or boolean values.

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Modification for usage with a Custom Client

To make the template work with Custom Clients, the prefix needs to be adjusted. Navigate to
https://my.anydesk.com/files and select the corresponding Custom Client to find its prefix in the details.

The prefix is unique across your my.anydesk.com login and will not change during the lifetime of that account.

Fig 1. Custom Client Prefix in the Custom Client Details

In order to respect Windows registry conventions, all entities transported to the registry need to be transformed
into camel case. In Fig. 1, the example prefix ad_kd906dac must be transformed according to Fig. 2.1 and 2.2.

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Fig. 2.1 Unconfigured template with Fig. 2.2 Configured template with
default names for Custom Clients. adjusted names for Custom Clients.

In this example the placeholder names AdXXXXXXXX and AdXXXXXXXXMsi should

respectively be renamed to
• Adkd906dac for Custom Clients
• Adkd906dacMsi for Custom MSI Clients

The two above-mentioned strings must be adjusted in the files AnyDesk.admx and AnyDesk.adml (within the
en-US folder) using a text editor, replacing the “X” characters by the corresponding eight last characters from
the prefix.

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