Question on locking down tablets - printing quotas, websites, general access

deathnote666

Might be getting some tablets for public use. Don't know if Android or Microsoft yet.

Is there a way to limit how many pages can be printed if hooked up to a printer? (printer type not selected yet - probably an all-in-one type)
Any advice on locking down the tablet for basic web viewing and printing? (possibly limit sites it can go to without using a fw?)

Will be used in an Active Directory environment with either a 2008 r2 or 2012 r2 server.

Thanks!

Aridhol

Locking down printing should be done on the printer end with user permissions. It's been ages since I've worked with AD but I believe you can control this.

For web viewing again you would do this on your firewall side and either segment the tablets withik a range of IPs you would then lock down or do it individually. I think with many you can also just do it on the hardware address too.

Hard to say more without great detail on your setup.

evilmrhenry

https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/how-to-restrict-someone-to-one-app-only-on-android-1694960894
Here's how to keep people from exiting the web browser app on Android.

EDIT: Also see this StackOverflow question for other methods:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24127947/lock-android-device-to-a-single-application