Re: Blocking Cleint Games

In news:0161BC04-6A19-4B5E-9EC9-B65322F9B23E@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Part Time <PartTime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
I personally would just fire the employees paying games all day,

So would I, if they weren't getting their work done, but that would also
apply to talking on the phone, staring up and counting ceiling tiles,
showing up drunk, and so forth. That doesn't mean I'd ban phones, ceiling
tiles, or whiskey!

but
it a family owned company and it's family that is guilty.

And yet the family owners want you to do this? Odd!

Anyway,
thanks for the link, it shoud be a big help. User rights do not work
because certain programs (Quickbooks) require users to have registry
access to run.

You can work around that.

http://www.quickbooksgroup.com/webx?14@@.eeb323b/9 may help. Or the lovely
and talented Susan Bradley may chime in. I think she has a paging alert set
up for any mention of the word "Quickbooks" in usenet! ;-)

For other apps, you need to find out where in the registry & file system the
app needs write access, and then adjust same, accordingly. FileMon and
RegMon are useful - I think you can still download them from
www.sysinternals.com.




"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

In news:D8778806-D690-416C-8A0F-C9B04F8880D3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Part Time <PartTime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Sorry. Only local games such as solitaire. I've been asked to block
them. I know it can be done in group policy, I just hate working
with it.

Not that it matters, but I think that's a bit draconian! Anyway, you
could simply uninstall all the games...and ensure that users don't
have local admin or power user rights on their workstations.

Otherwise, group policy is definitely what you need here, if you're
going to do this. Create a new GPO and play with it using the GPMC
and modeling wizards, before linking it to the OU you wish.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324036 for some help with
software restriction policies.



"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Are you talking about local games, like Solitaire, or Web games
that require Internet access?

--
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"Part Time" <PartTime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:00430C20-3C09-4EA0-AE53-37F84EDFC15E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is there an easier way to block client programs rather than Group
Policy, or
is that the best way to do it?



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