Re: User Settings on only some computers

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Thanks, I will try that.

I know they can probably change the proxy settings if they know how, but it
is much easier for them to browse the Internet on their own computer across
the room. I do have ISA 2000 on the server and can block per user that way,
but I need to keep these users from using these particular machines so I
think the loop back will be my best bet.


"Norbert Fehlauer [MVP]" <n.fehlauer@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jordan wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I want to set the proxy settings on 10 of my computers so no user can
>> access the Internet but I don't want to prevent the users from
>> accessing the Internet via other computers. I would like to use GP
>> to set the Proxy to a bogus proxy, but my problem is if I set it on
>> the User container, the user will get the setting no matter what
>> computer.
>> Since the Proxy setting is per user, how do I get the setting to work
>> on just these 10 computers?
>
> Put your 10 computers in a separate OU and enable the loopback mode in a
> GPO on that OU. Than the userconfiguration in this GPO take precedence
> over your normal userconfig. You should know, that setting a bogus proxy
> does not prevent a skilled user not to access the internet. Maybe you
> should consider looking into a proxy solutions with user authentification.
>
> HTH
> Norbert
> --
> Dilbert's words of wisdom #32: If it wasn't for the last minute,
> nothing would get done.
>


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