Re: Group policy,


"George Schneider" <georgedschneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a problem I'm trying to resolve. I have to manualy configure local
profiles whenever a new user is set up or moves to a different worksation.
I
was wondering if I can allievate this need by using group policy or login
scripts.

As G said you might want to consider Roaming Profiles which are specifically
designed to meet the "user might be at multiple workstations" issue, but
GPOs
are also designed to control SOME settings without having to control them
all
as a Mandatory Profile would do.

Many/Most/All of the things below can be done with a Group Policy.

Some are set as USER configuation, others are set for the computer (power
options I believe).

Some of the settings we use that I cannot find a resolution to included
-hiding the adress bar in Internet Explorer
-hid links in IE
-set the power options
-set defualt save locations for word and excel
-setting up Outlook
-mapping drives
-mappting printers
-setting screen svaer settings

You can pretty much do ANYTHING in a GPO -- if there is not a pre-built
setting you can handle it with a Script (anything you can do from the
command
line using batch, VBS, regedit/regini, or another program) OR by adding an
Administrative Template file (adm) to handle registry settings directly from
the
GPO.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)


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