Hello. (This post is a bit of a mind teaser…) The task: My company’s Board wishes to forbid the use of a list of programs, but maintain an exception plan. [ i.e. forbid the use of skype.exe, dropbox.exe, googledrivesync.exe, etc.... for everyone except that John (member of the AllowSkype Group) can use skype and Peter (member of the [...]
Hello Mr. Wiki ‘ Mr. Wiki i need some help about sites blocking in local domain based network by the sever2003r2 and by group policy so can you help me about this problem. please don’t give me hosts file idea that is just local pc based if you have any idea about this type group [...]
Hi, I created 2 GPO’s (both logon scripts: 1 for mapping network drives, the other for installing our network printers). When I log into Windows XP Pro machines, both scripts run fine. However, when I log into a Win 7 Pro machine, only the mapping drive script runs, the printer script does not. I turned [...]
Not sure if this apply to registry or GPO or to both but I would like to lock anyone from saving file/s locally but okay to save file/s to USB external storage. Thanks
I have written two scripts to create a log of when a user log ons and off the network. I have tested the scripts by double clicking on them and they work fine and I am able to get them to run on a local machine by setting them to run at logon/logoff by using [...]
We have just recently joined to our parent companies domain, and as such our old local admin account “administrator” name is not being used as an login anymore. Most of our machines have administrator as the local admin account. Since we want to get away from that name, we would like to add a local [...]
Hi guys, I need some help with Server 2008 GPOs. This may be a noob question so be gentle! I have various servers in OUs and need to prevent users accessing other servers via a logged on server. e.g. User1 logged onto Server A in OU A, must not be able to access Server B [...]
I made a group1 OU and I’m trying to deny access to everything but wordpad and their directory structure. Im thinking its deny access to AD, but I’m not sure and cant find it. Thanks.
I’m running Windows Server 2003 R2. Is it possible to create a Group Policy Object (GPO) from a VBScript, and add all settings for the GPO in the process?
Our clients run XP pro and Office 2003 or 2007 and on server 2003 domain. We have a macro enabled document that pulls the user name from the registry and applies it to the bottom of that document, similar to a signature. The script below pulls the user name from AD and sets it in [...]
Hi Everyone, Our domain (Win2003) has about 44k user accounts and we have this Group Policy which is in the main trunk of our domain structure. Currently it is enforced to (all Domain Users) but i would like to exclude a specific group. Should I just add the group in the security filter and set the permissions [...]
Please help! Im using VMware Server and installed there Windows server 2008 and Win xp2. I’m done configuring AD and DNS. I’m done joining also XP2 in the domain. My problem is: When I deploying GPO to XP like Show quick launched. Nothing happened to XP. Please help! Thanks
I now have a need to give a vendor file acces, specifically a certain folder on the network, but want to lockdown access to drives when I publish explorer.exe. Currently I have simple OU’s in AD with users, and no seperate GP for the Citrix server itself. Every domain user has default access to Citrix via Security Groups linked to [...]
I have exported a number of group policy objects (GPOs) from my current domain and want to import into a new domain using VBScript. The OU and group structure of the new domain (2008SP2) will be the same as this domain and will have already been copied in. It is unclear from the TechNet info [...]
Is there a way to hide or disable normal user to access or view the content of the systemroot and this though the use of a gpo ?
“You cannot use Internet Calendars. Your system administrator has turned off this feature.” This is not controlled by a GPO nor has the Admin runred this off. Windows XP SP2, Outlook 2007 SP1. Any help greatly appreciated.
I need to disable the XPS Document Writer and Outlook Express through Group Policy Editor. If any one can help with this I would really appreciate it. Chad
How can I automatically get the login userid to fill in a value in a gpo text box
I am trying to extract specific GPO settings using VBScript. Does anyone have a sample I can use? Thanks.
Trying to find out if there is a way to change the time settings through a GPO. When we created a new image and deployed it out we didnt notice the check for day light savings time was checked. So trying to figure out how to get it unchecked with out deploying this image again. [...]





