To disable the guest account on computers that have the Local Security Agent installed, enable the Disable Local Guest Accounts disable local guest accounts policy. This is an out-of-the-box policy; you do not need to make any configuration changes to this policy.
Enable the
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policy
To enable this policy, do the following steps:
- In the Arellia Thycotic Security Manager, click the Policies tab.
- In the file library in the left pane, navigate to Arellia Thycotic Solutions > Local Security > Policies > Disable Local Guest Accounts.
- Select Provisioned users and Provisioned groups.
- In the right pane, click the red the Off button to activate to turn the policy on.
Schedule and
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apply
For instructions on how to set the schedule for the policy, go to Create or Change a Policy Schedule.
For instructions on how to apply the policy to computers, go to Resource Targets.
Run a
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task
To run the Disable Local Guest Accounts disable local guest accounts policy immediately, run the Disable Guest Account disable guest account task.
To run this task, do the following steps:
- In the Arellia Thycotic Security Manager, click the Tasks tab.
- In the file library in the left pane, navigate to Arellia Solutions Jobs and Tasks > Client Tasks > Local Security > Policies > Disable Guest Account.
- Set a schedule for the task. (For instructions about how to set a schedule, go to Calendar Options.)
