How to block TikTok or other social media





Have you considered blocking social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and others on corporate devices?

 

Many government entities in our community want to restrict access to social media on their official devices rather than personally owned devices (BYOD). There are several reasons for this. For example, in the USA, TikTok was blocked and unblocked.

 

There are many ways to do this, such as Firewall, Network, Microsoft Defender, and so on. However, I will discuss how to do it via Intune.


Create a Policy:

  •        Create a New Policy: Name it as you want and add the description.


  •     Configuration settings > add settings > and search for “URL blocking” and pick both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. And pick the one for the device, not the user, did not work for me.




Then add the URL you want to block to “Block access to a list of URLs (Device)”.

I went a little further by disallowing the users to run the TikTok application “Under System policies.”  And blocking nonadmin users from installing any App from the store.


  •        Assignments: Assign the profile to all devices or specific groups of devices.
  •        Sync Devices: Sync the devices with Intune or wait for the policy to apply.


Check the policy on the device.







I hope this may help you. Have a nice weekend



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