PIN’s used to work in Windows 10 with no changes to GPO’s but at some point in recent Win 10 ADMX templates, Microsoft added an odd setting. They turned off PIN’s by default and you have to turn them on in via GPO if you want to use them on a domain connected user account.
This means that there is not a GPO that is blocking your use of PINs and the message “THIS SETTING IS MANAGED BY YOUR ORGANIZATION” is very misleading.
The solution to using PIN’s on a domain is quite easy:
This makes WINDOWS HELLO PINS optional, if you want to require a PIN go to USER > Administrative Templates > Windows Component, and select Windows Hello for Business
Also note that if you are a local administrator (i.e. on your corporate PC), you can also make this change in the LOCAL GROUP POLICY EDITOR by clicking START, typing GPEDIT.MSC .
This has been a up my butt for months now. I could not find the GPO that was blocking the use of PIN’s no matter how many GPRESULT -R’s I ran, so I hope this helps your frustration level.
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Hi Ewan; It should be almost instantanious.
Thank you so much! This helped me a lot!!!
Thank you thank you thank you!
IT WORKED THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, I hope you'll read me but i don't have the "logon" option do you know what i could do?
Hi Nathan;
If you are saying that you do not see a login option in your Group Policy then you likely have old ADMX Templates. You can download the latest batch directly from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/100591
I hope that helps.
does not work at all on a domain joined laptop. I have tried the above not no avail. I have also tried alot of other suggestions within the group policy on server 2016 and also local policies on the laptop. nothing works to get this sodding windows hello to work on a domain joined system !!! I have never known something within windows to be so stupidly hard to rectify to which should be a simple security change !!
Hi Adam;
That is annoying; I feel your pain. This solution has worked for us several times but obviously you have a different situation. If you figure out what it is, please let us know here.
Thanks
New with Pinterest. We have neither a group policy or admin setting. Just a home-office pc. This does not help\
If you are stuck, I would try removing ALL of the policies applied to the computer. I just wrote https://www.urtech.ca/2019/12/solved-how-to-remove-this-setting-is-managed-by-your-organization/ for you to explain how to do that. I hope it helps
not working at all for me
Hi Raj;
There are enough people with the same problem that this solution does not help with, I am confident saying there must be something else at play for some PC's but I don't know what that is. For the record, about a month ago I ran through the problem on another PC and this did correct the issue.
It works... and it also does not work. It seems like a case to case basis. could be another setting that needs to be configured for certain devices.
dont work for me neither, any soltuin so far.. ?