Re: Policy template to block MSN Messenger 6.2?

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From: Dave Yates (DavidYates_at_ambitionIT-a4e.co.uk)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:23:45 +0000 (UTC)

I would also like a solution to this if anyone can help. We have just under
200 Win2K PC's and we run a training organisiation, and the clients seems
infatuated with MSN, Yahoo, AOL etc, so if anyone knows a way of blocking
installation and/or usage of this, it would be a great help.

Thanks

Regards

Dave

"KJ" <kpj@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:8220ce8e.0405131801.10ebade7@posting.google.com...
> The company I work for discourages Messenger use. In the past, we used
> a registry setting to prevent MSN messenger from running however it
> only works up to version 4.7. We have had a rash of people downloading
> newer versions and installing it. Unfortunatley, we have some critical
> apps that require everyone to have local admin rights on thier pcs.
>
> The XP system.adm policy has a setting to block messenger, but it
> doesn't seem to work on ver 6.2. and I suspect that that setting is
> ignored on Win2K pcs.
>
> Will system.adm from Windows Server 2003 block the newer versions of
> MSN Messenger (post 4.7) and will the policy apply to Win2K systems? I
> would try it but I don't have access to that version of Windows
> Server.
>
> If anyone has another automated method for disabling MSN Messenger
> 6.2, please do tell. I have searched like crazy and can't find an
> answer.
>
> Thanks,
> KJ

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