Limit the list of plugins employees can install.

[Emmanuel Meekers]

Hi,

We would like to limit the list of plugins that can be installed by our employees, not only for security reasons, but also maintenance (our ICT department gets user questions on plugins, we want to limit this).
Is there a way to do?

Thanks

[dinkumoil]

@Emmanuel-Meekers
AFAIK there is no technical means to limit the number of plugins a user is able to install. You can only remove the capability to install plugins at all.

You could do a survey which plugins your employees need. There can be different needs, e.g. technical staff likely needs other plugins than employees that ar more involved in administrative tasks. Then you can install these plugins on the employee’s machines.

After that you need to rename or delete <install-directory>\updater\GUP.exe to prevent users from installing any other plugins. As long as your employees don’t have admin access to Notepad++'s install directory, they are not able to revert these changes.

The disadvantage is that your users neither will be able to update Notepad++ itself nor the installed plugins. This is something your ICT department has to do.