Re: Group Policy Problem

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From: Mark Renoden [MSFT] (markreno_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:23:05 +1000

Hi

This sounds almost certainly tied to the list of allowed applications you
have in the policy. What applications do you allow?

Kind regards 

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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:27f401c49e8c$79b28850$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> We have a relatively large school network. Within AD, we
> have all of our student accounts under one OU with a
> fairly large set of group policy settings applied to them.
>
> All of our student accounts use/share the same mandatory
> profile. Within that profile, there is a desktop folder
> that contains several shortcuts to some approved
> applications. The problem is that anytime a student clicks
> on that folder on the desktop, he/she receives the "This
> operation has been cancelled due to restrictions on this
> computer..." The wierd thing is that we don't have any
> policies that restrict users browsing/using desktop icons.
> We have software restriction policies, but the users would
> receive a different error message if the problem was a
> software restriction issue.
>
> I've looked through all of our policy settings and I can't
> find one that sticks out as being a problem. Is there a
> way I can figure out what policy setting is causing the
> issue here?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!

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