Re: Blocking internet from office

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From: Nightfang (no_at_no.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:19:34 +0000 (UTC)

I am a student at a Maths and Computing College and what
the IT Admin have installed is a program called Codework
Browser Control, when a teacher or admin log in, they can set
it so that every pc can have internet access or a selected few.

http://www.codework.com/bcontrol/product.html

"phil sigley" <phil@secureroot.com> wrote in message
news:601b78b1.0409200256.32a261e3@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if someone can help, we have a small number of students who
> wont concentrate on coursework during lessons, mainly because the
> internet is too much of a distraction.
>
> I have setup of a group policy on our domain to add these users to
> which is more restricted than the default pupil policy. The main
> difference being that i set up the policy so that internet expolorer
> cannot be run, this works fine and when the user attempts to use the
> IE icon on the profile they are informed that it is disabled.
>
> However the can still get IE running and browse the net via office xp
> either via the web toolbar or typing a url and clicking it. How can i
> prevent this access to IE via other applications with a GPO. We use
> 2000 server, XP pro clients and Office XP Pro.
>
> Thanks Phil Sigley

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