Re: Using "Group" Policy with workgroup PCs

Local Group Policy applies to all users that logon to the computer as you
found. There are a couple of workarounds as shown in the links below to
prevent local GP from applying to administrators or a group. There is no way
to propagate Local Group Policy from one computer to another, you really
need a domain controller to manage Group Policy centrally. Some have
reported success copying the reg.pol from the Windows\system32\group
policy\user folder from a baseline computer to other computers. I have not
tried it myself to see if it works. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q293655&;
http://www.jsifaq.com/sube/tip2400/rh2492.htm


"Richard Naef" <google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:54685e89.0504191233.45a940bf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> New to Group Policies.
>
> I am trying to utilse them within a workgroup of about 30 XP Pro PCs.
> As they are not part of an Active Directory and tehrefore not part of
> Groups, I'm not sure if this is the right group.
>
> 1. I assumed that when setting up User Policy details (specifically
> Start Menu settings) I would be able to have different settings for
> different users, but I tried logging as the non admin user and running
> gpoedit.msc as an administrator and making my settings. However the
> settings were used for both (all) users. Is there a way to have
> different policies for different local users?
>
> 2. Having decided on the policy on one PC, what is the best way from
> propogating these settings to all the PCs in the workgroup?
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> Richard Naef


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