Using Windows Parental Controls (Family Safety) on a Domain

A while back, I was setting up a test domain at home and also wanted to mess with the Windows parental controls. I discovered that being domain-joined removes the Family Safety option from the Control Panel, and was severely disappointed.

Today, I discovered that it is possible to use Family Safety on a domain, and without any crazy registry editing or profile folder shuffling. There's just a Group Policy setting for it:

• Computer Configuration
• Windows Settings
• Windows Components
• Parental Controls
• "Make Parental Controls control panel visible on a Domain"

Switch that to Enabled, force a group policy refresh on the client with gpupdate (may require logoff/logon cycle), and control parentally on a domain!