Delete internet favorites in roaming profiles for good! 1

[elsie9]

I run a small school network with AD, roaming profiles and Group policies. I know I can remove access to favorites on the tool bar no problem, but students do make use of it. Sometimes I need to delete the favorites from a particular profile, but find that a few days later they return to that profile. I delete them from the folder in their roaming profile. How can I make sure they stay deleted?

 

[porkchopexpress]

I'm not sure that there is a policy to delete users favorites at logoff.
In the past i've used a vbscript to redirect a users favorites to their work folder, you could do the same but redirect all users favorites to a single folder on the network that they cannot write to or that you can empty every day.


Here is the reg section that i import.

WSHShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Favorites", "H:\Favorites", "REG_EXPAND_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Favorites", "H:\Favorites", "REG_SZ"

You know what Jack Burton always says at a time like this...

 

[porkchopexpress]

Actually i think there is a policy.

User Configuration
Windows Settings
Internet Explorer Maintenance
URL's

Under that area there is a Favorites and Links setting and a check box called "Delete existing Favorite and Links if present" i think you could set that and then not add any of your own links this would then just clear out their links.

It's worth testing.


You know what Jack Burton always says at a time like this...