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We have a bunch of techs on Windows 10 Pro machines that have to change their hosts file every now and again to be able to test things for customers.

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

All these machines are part of an Active Directory domain(Running on Windows Server 2012R2) and the current 'default' settings don't allow them change this file by themselves, which is by design as far as I'm concerned, however it's too much work to do it for them.

So my question is: Is it possible to allow users in an Operational Unit to change their own hosts file via Group Policy Object for Windows 10? And how do I accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

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You can use Group Policy to add a modify ACL for a group that contains these users to the ...\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. The GPO Setting for ACLs is: Computer/Policies/Windows Settings/Security Settings/File System. Because this setting lies within the computer configuration branch, it needs to be linked to the OU that contains the computer accounts that these users login to. Do not link it to the OU that contains their user accounts.

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