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Blocking Use of Live Messenger
I have a number of XP pro pc's, all users have to be given administrative
rights because of the ERP software they need to use. A small group are using live messenger for personal use rather than work, unfortunately I have been told to spoil their fun!!! Anyone know how I can do this, the registry change PreventRun=1 does not seem to work, I assume because its Live Messenger. -- Thx harry |
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Blocking Use of Live Messenger
Greetings Harry,
There are no specific GPOs for Live Messenger like there were for the previous Messenger products. As such, depending on your circumstances you could try blocking the application using the normal software policies within Windows or blocking Messenger at the network level. People -will- get around these though, a good solution is a specific IM policy and logging mechanism at the network level. People are far less likely to use IM for personal use if they know they're being logged and that the "geeks" can read what they're writing... -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "harry" wrote in message ... I have a number of XP pro pc's, all users have to be given administrative rights because of the ERP software they need to use. A small group are using live messenger for personal use rather than work, unfortunately I have been told to spoil their fun!!! Anyone know how I can do this, the registry change PreventRun=1 does not seem to work, I assume because its Live Messenger. -- Thx harry |
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