Easy one, how to change IE home page in my GP 2

[Sampar]

Hi every1,

I feel a little dumb, I just can't find where to set the internet explorer home page in my group policy.

Any help plz?

 

[ShackDaddy]

User Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Internet Explorer Maintenance -> URLs -> Important URLs

Make sure you also turn on Internet Explorer Maintenance Policy processing: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Group Policy

Set that last policy to Enable and make sure the third check box "Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed" is checked.

ShackDaddy

 

[Sampar]

Thx a lot bro

 

[Leozack]

Just wondering what you meant by

"Make sure you also turn on Internet Explorer Maintenance Policy processing: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Group Policy"

I was having problems with internet GPOs yesterday and by the sounds of a call this morning it's having problems again. Does something there need to be changed in order for the internet settings to go through? I've not heard of anything needing to be changed there in order for a setting elsewhere to be applied?

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Leozack

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[ncotton]

The setting he refered to in the above quote tells the machine to run the process for the setting even if it has not changed. Policy is only processed when the policy that is available on the server is different from that of the one previously downloaded. If a user changes there homepage, the policy on the client is not changed, cause the user changing it rights it to the HKUser\Policies\ID registry, and not the policy registry. So without enabling these "Process even if group policy has not changed" setting, the policy would not be re-evaluated. This means that a users home page will be set by GP, they can go in a change it, for the length of the session, but next time the policy is refreshed, either by background refresh, or on next logon, then the homepage will be reset to the administrators choice.

Is that clearer? I waffle alot.

Hope this Helps.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant

 

[acl03]

I posted a thread a while back that has a link to a very useful excel document. It lists every group policy setting, where to find it, a description, and the registry keys it is modifying (if any).

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1179685&page=3

Thanks,
Andrew