Re: GPO for restricting install?

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Hi,

Try this, not sure if it will work for you:
Either computer or user settings:
Windows Settings:
Security Settings:
Softwarre restriction policies.
Additional Rules
Here you can bloack apps using registry rules, for example .exe's which
should solve your problem. I cannot gurantee this works! But it should.

Also under Computer settings, Window Components, Windows Installer you have
quite a few rrestriction options. Not sure if they apply to admins thow. No
harm in trying on a test machine though!

hope that helps.
Tim



"Joel" <Joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5452B548-8762-48BB-B07C-CF6383BD977B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi everybody, I have a user on my SBS 2003 domain that has local admin
> rights
> at her workstation. She has those rights because Autocad will not
> function
> with standard user rights. Now the problem... this employee has a
> tendancy
> to download and install every program she runs across on the internet.
> This
> means that I have to clean garbage off of her workstaton once a week. Is
> there some kind of gpo setting I can apply that would remove/disable her
> ability to install software? I read about gpo's for software restrictions
> but that still requires that I specify a name in order to restrict that
> software from running.
> If I could get autocad to run at a lower permission level, I would demote
> her immediately. So if anyone has any thoughts on this front I'd also
> like
> to hear them.
>
> Workstation software:
> Windows 2000 SP4 (all updates and patches)
> Symantec Antivirus 10.0.1
> Autocad Land Desktop 2002
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


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