{"id":6785,"date":"2009-07-23T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highclouder.ninja\/?p=6785"},"modified":"2024-05-21T14:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:49:56","slug":"disable-ipv6-via-group-policy-gpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/?p=6785","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable IPv6 via Group Policy (GPO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve already mentioned many time that I\u2019m disabling <strong>IPv6<\/strong> almost on all my servers and workstation.<\/p>\n<p>In today days, I really don\u2019t see a reason to have it enabled (maybe in next few years, but not now).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see today how to disable \/ enable IPv6 via Group Policy (GPO)\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expta.com\/2009\/02\/how-to-configure-ipv6-using-group.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jeff Guillet<\/strong><\/a> created the corresponding admx template. Jeff wrote the attached\u00a0<strong>ADMX<\/strong> and <strong>ADML<\/strong> files to enable the configuration of<strong> IPv6<\/strong> using<strong> Group Policy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Copy each file to the computer you will use to configure the policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curuit.com\/Downloads\/IPv6Configuration.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IPv6Configuration.zip<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This ZIP file contains both the ADMX and ADML files:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IPv6Configuration.admx<\/strong> \u2013 Copy this file to <em><strong>%SYSTEMROOT%\\PolicyDefinitions<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>IPv6Configuration.adml <\/strong>\u2013 Copy this file to<strong><em>%SYSTEMROOT&amp;\\PolicyDefinitions\\en-US<\/em><\/strong> (Replace en-US with your country\u2019s language, as necessary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now log into the computer and use the <strong>Group Policy Management Console<\/strong>(<strong>GPMC<\/strong>) to configure the<strong> IPv6 settings<\/strong>. The new policy will be located under Computer Configuration &gt; Policies &gt; Administrative Templates &gt; Network &gt; IPv6<\/p>\n<p>Configuration, as shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6786 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.highclouder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ipv6-709250-300x242.png\" alt=\"ipv6-709250\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ipv6-709250-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ipv6-709250-768x620.png 768w, https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ipv6-709250.png 916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, you can configure the following IPv6 settings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enable all IPv6 components (Windows default)<\/li>\n<li>Disable all IPv6 components (the setting you probably want)<\/li>\n<li>Disable 6to4<\/li>\n<li>Disable ISATAP<\/li>\n<li>Disable Teredo<\/li>\n<li>Disable Teredo and 6to4<\/li>\n<li>Disable all tunnel interfaces<\/li>\n<li>Disable all LAN and PPP interfaces<\/li>\n<li>Disable all LAN, PPP and tunnel interfaces<\/li>\n<li>Prefer IPv4 over IPv6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that you must restart the computer for the configuration to go into effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve already mentioned many time that I\u2019m disabling IPv6 almost on all my servers and workstation. In today days, I really don\u2019t see a reason to have it enabled (maybe in next few years, but not now). Let\u2019s see today how to disable \/ enable IPv6 via Group Policy (GPO)\u2026 Jeff Guillet created the corresponding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7273,"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions\/7273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highclouder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}