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Background:
An XP image is created and a local policy is setup (via gpedit.msc) to point the IE homepage to http://intranet (for example).
Is this possible?
A new intranet is created and the question is posed to pinpoint specific regions for the switchover to point to http://newintranet.
Situation:
All the PC's are in one global OU in Active Directory. The easiest way to change this setting is to make a global policy change and when users log in they see the global policy change, update their local policy and their IE homepage now goes to http://newintranet.
I use a utility called LANDesk (similar to Microsoft's SMS) and could identify PC's by region but the only way I believe I can change the homepage is to change HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\main\ and change the Start Page entry but by doing so I would have to "push" out the "patch" during the daytime when "most" of the users are logged in and it will change their homepage. But if people log off and go to another PC and log in they will still have the older http://intranet in THOSE profiles thus negating my change. This is a sloppy way to change things, and the GPO change in AD is the "best practice".
My question is this: Can I push out a "local policy change" that would be like altering gpedit.msc settings and effect all the users of a given PC it is set on? That has been difficult to google search on.
Please focus on this issue as comments about "firefox" or "Linux" will be ignored. Thanks!
An XP image is created and a local policy is setup (via gpedit.msc) to point the IE homepage to http://intranet (for example).
Is this possible?
A new intranet is created and the question is posed to pinpoint specific regions for the switchover to point to http://newintranet.
Situation:
All the PC's are in one global OU in Active Directory. The easiest way to change this setting is to make a global policy change and when users log in they see the global policy change, update their local policy and their IE homepage now goes to http://newintranet.
I use a utility called LANDesk (similar to Microsoft's SMS) and could identify PC's by region but the only way I believe I can change the homepage is to change HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\main\ and change the Start Page entry but by doing so I would have to "push" out the "patch" during the daytime when "most" of the users are logged in and it will change their homepage. But if people log off and go to another PC and log in they will still have the older http://intranet in THOSE profiles thus negating my change. This is a sloppy way to change things, and the GPO change in AD is the "best practice".
My question is this: Can I push out a "local policy change" that would be like altering gpedit.msc settings and effect all the users of a given PC it is set on? That has been difficult to google search on.
Please focus on this issue as comments about "firefox" or "Linux" will be ignored. Thanks!