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Lockdown GPO issue
Hi,
At work we have a set homepage in IE which is now unadjustable as we have installed group policy on each machine. Now our directors have decided to change their mind ( management ) which would need us to manually visit each site ( all 40 of em ) and change every machines homepage and disable group policy etc. A big headache . Is their any way to create a script or something very similar which we can just send out to our employees on site? Thanks |
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Are these computers part of an Active Directory domain?? If they are you
should be able to use Group Policy. Look at user configuration/Windows settings/Internet Explorer maintenance/URLs - important URL's. Also see the link below on IE maintenance processing. --- Steve http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... Hi, At work we have a set homepage in IE which is now unadjustable as we have installed group policy on each machine. Now our directors have decided to change their mind ( management ) which would need us to manually visit each site ( all 40 of em ) and change every machines homepage and disable group policy etc. A big headache . Is their any way to create a script or something very similar which we can just send out to our employees on site? Thanks |
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hi,
no these are either standalone or small workgroups. Have found what I need to set in group policy but wondering if theres a command line change I could do to edit gpedit? "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Are these computers part of an Active Directory domain?? If they are you should be able to use Group Policy. Look at user configuration/Windows settings/Internet Explorer maintenance/URLs - important URL's. Also see the link below on IE maintenance processing. --- Steve http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... Hi, At work we have a set homepage in IE which is now unadjustable as we have installed group policy on each machine. Now our directors have decided to change their mind ( management ) which would need us to manually visit each site ( all 40 of em ) and change every machines homepage and disable group policy etc. A big headache . Is their any way to create a script or something very similar which we can just send out to our employees on site? Thanks |
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Well in that case for that setting you could try a .reg file that would look
like the following where you would want to of course modify for the actual webpage. You could copy into notepad and save with a .reg extension. Then on a test computer try clicking the .reg file to see if it works for the users. --- Steve http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310516 --- info on using reg files. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Start Page"="http://www.mypage.com/" "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... hi, no these are either standalone or small workgroups. Have found what I need to set in group policy but wondering if theres a command line change I could do to edit gpedit? "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Are these computers part of an Active Directory domain?? If they are you should be able to use Group Policy. Look at user configuration/Windows settings/Internet Explorer maintenance/URLs - important URL's. Also see the link below on IE maintenance processing. --- Steve http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... Hi, At work we have a set homepage in IE which is now unadjustable as we have installed group policy on each machine. Now our directors have decided to change their mind ( management ) which would need us to manually visit each site ( all 40 of em ) and change every machines homepage and disable group policy etc. A big headache . Is their any way to create a script or something very similar which we can just send out to our employees on site? Thanks |
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that worked in a sense many thanks.
unfortunatly grouppolict is enabled on these pc's and therefor prevents me from temporarily disabling the policy in place that lets me edit the registry. Any ideas how to automate this? Save outr users lots of hassle. Thanks again "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Well in that case for that setting you could try a .reg file that would look like the following where you would want to of course modify for the actual webpage. You could copy into notepad and save with a .reg extension. Then on a test computer try clicking the .reg file to see if it works for the users. --- Steve http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310516 --- info on using reg files. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Start Page"="http://www.mypage.com/" "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... hi, no these are either standalone or small workgroups. Have found what I need to set in group policy but wondering if theres a command line change I could do to edit gpedit? "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Are these computers part of an Active Directory domain?? If they are you should be able to use Group Policy. Look at user configuration/Windows settings/Internet Explorer maintenance/URLs - important URL's. Also see the link below on IE maintenance processing. --- Steve http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... Hi, At work we have a set homepage in IE which is now unadjustable as we have installed group policy on each machine. Now our directors have decided to change their mind ( management ) which would need us to manually visit each site ( all 40 of em ) and change every machines homepage and disable group policy etc. A big headache . Is their any way to create a script or something very similar which we can just send out to our employees on site? Thanks |
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Well not using an Active Directory domain is a huge downside to managing
Group Policy. What you could try is to configure GP the way you want on one computer and then copy the \Windows\system32\group policy\user\Microsoft\IEAK folder to other computers you want to change. That should change that setting in Local Group Policy but it may not refresh right away though you could try using gpudate /force to do that. You may also be able to remotely manage Group Policy on other computers using the mmc snapin for Group Policy and browse or enter the name of the target computer assuming you have proper network connectivity and are a local administrator on the target computer if that would help at all. --- Steve "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... that worked in a sense many thanks. unfortunatly grouppolict is enabled on these pc's and therefor prevents me from temporarily disabling the policy in place that lets me edit the registry. Any ideas how to automate this? Save outr users lots of hassle. Thanks again "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Well in that case for that setting you could try a .reg file that would look like the following where you would want to of course modify for the actual webpage. You could copy into notepad and save with a .reg extension. Then on a test computer try clicking the .reg file to see if it works for the users. --- Steve http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310516 --- info on using reg files. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Start Page"="http://www.mypage.com/" "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... hi, no these are either standalone or small workgroups. Have found what I need to set in group policy but wondering if theres a command line change I could do to edit gpedit? "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Are these computers part of an Active Directory domain?? If they are you should be able to use Group Policy. Look at user configuration/Windows settings/Internet Explorer maintenance/URLs - important URL's. Also see the link below on IE maintenance processing. --- Steve http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... Hi, At work we have a set homepage in IE which is now unadjustable as we have installed group policy on each machine. Now our directors have decided to change their mind ( management ) which would need us to manually visit each site ( all 40 of em ) and change every machines homepage and disable group policy etc. A big headache . Is their any way to create a script or something very similar which we can just send out to our employees on site? Thanks |
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Ive sorted it now - thanks for the assist!
MERRY CHRISTMAS !! "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Well not using an Active Directory domain is a huge downside to managing Group Policy. What you could try is to configure GP the way you want on one computer and then copy the \Windows\system32\group policy\user\Microsoft\IEAK folder to other computers you want to change. That should change that setting in Local Group Policy but it may not refresh right away though you could try using gpudate /force to do that. You may also be able to remotely manage Group Policy on other computers using the mmc snapin for Group Policy and browse or enter the name of the target computer assuming you have proper network connectivity and are a local administrator on the target computer if that would help at all. --- Steve "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... that worked in a sense many thanks. unfortunatly grouppolict is enabled on these pc's and therefor prevents me from temporarily disabling the policy in place that lets me edit the registry. Any ideas how to automate this? Save outr users lots of hassle. Thanks again "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Well in that case for that setting you could try a .reg file that would look like the following where you would want to of course modify for the actual webpage. You could copy into notepad and save with a .reg extension. Then on a test computer try clicking the .reg file to see if it works for the users. --- Steve http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310516 --- info on using reg files. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Start Page"="http://www.mypage.com/" "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... hi, no these are either standalone or small workgroups. Have found what I need to set in group policy but wondering if theres a command line change I could do to edit gpedit? "Steven L Umbach" wrote: Are these computers part of an Active Directory domain?? If they are you should be able to use Group Policy. Look at user configuration/Windows settings/Internet Explorer maintenance/URLs - important URL's. Also see the link below on IE maintenance processing. --- Steve http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html "AmyAmandaAllen" wrote in message ... Hi, At work we have a set homepage in IE which is now unadjustable as we have installed group policy on each machine. Now our directors have decided to change their mind ( management ) which would need us to manually visit each site ( all 40 of em ) and change every machines homepage and disable group policy etc. A big headache . Is their any way to create a script or something very similar which we can just send out to our employees on site? Thanks |
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