Re: Set Group Policy to stop user installing any program

Thanks Lanwench

Your suggestion is exactly what I think as well.
Just a quick explain about why they use one account for multiple people.
Baiscally they don't want to pay CALs ( currently they've only got 5Cals.
However, this account is only intended for students to log in and browse
internet. So it is fine

Cheers

Geoff
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Geoff <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Guys

One of my clients is a college. Students like to install softwares on
the LAN PC.

Is there a group policy object to stop this behaviour?

Their OS is SBS 2003 std with 20 Win XP PC.
Students are sharing one user account. This means we may put as many
restrictions as we want without affecting other staff

Thank you very much

Geoff


Well, a couple of thoughts:

1. All users should have "user" rights only, and not be in the local
administrators or power users group (either by individual name or group
membership)
2. You can use software restriction policies to allow or deny application
usage
3. I don't recommend that you have all users sharing one account,
generally speaking. What's the justification for this? How are they
expected to use Exchange? How can you control whether someone deletes
someone else's files?
4. You can use a mandatory user profile if you wish.

I guess 4 is no longer a couple, but a few. :)



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