Force IE to Open to Specific Page (Not Homepage)

[skibum019]

Here is the scenario. I run a network with about 150 users on it, about 1/3 of which would likely not be happy if I permanently change their "Home Page" (unfortunately that is the upper 1/3 of the company). I would like, however, to enforce our company's Intranet site as the startup page when someone opens Internet Explorer. I would like them to be able to maintain their existing home page so they can still easily access their favorite homepage (i.e. msn.com, google.com, etc..), just when they open a new instance of IE, it would by default send them to our Intranet site. Anybody out there have a good way of accomplishing this from a network management standpoint (Group Policy, Login Script, Registry Hack)?

 

[smah]

This could be easy, or difficult depending on many factors. In it's simplest form: create a shortcut to your intranet site on the users desktop, call it 'Company IE' or something, remove the regular IE shortcts, & train your users to open IE from that. This would not do anything for users that have different default browsers or users that open IE via the start menu, etc...

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Can't IE7 handle multiple home pages in multiple tabs? Give them the best of both worlds.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[Diancecht]

Home Page: the page that shows when you open the navigator. If you make your intranet page appear, you're changing the homepage. Call it whatever you like.

I think you have two options: change it and teach them how to add their favourite page to their favourites or just add the intranet site to the favourites or links.

I personally wouldn't be happy if I get two homepages every time I open the browser but actually my homepage is about:blank.

Cheers,
Dian