Hi

We have a corporate intranet home page which we want all users to retain as
their IE home page. Is there some way that we can stop users from changing
their home page?

Looking in gpedit the only likely active directory control seems to be to
disable the IE general tab.

Is there any other way?

Regards
Nick

Re: Restrict users from changing IE home page by Dennis

Dennis
Sat May 01 04:37:02 CDT 2004

Nick Hill wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have a corporate intranet home page which we want all users to
> retain as their IE home page. Is there some way that we can stop
> users from changing their home page?
>
> Looking in gpedit the only likely active directory control seems to
> be to disable the IE general tab.
>
> Is there any other way?
>
> Regards
> Nick

Try this in the group policy:

Enable User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Internet Explorer\Disable
changing homepage settings

Set the page under User Configuration\Windows Settings\Internet Explorer
Maintenance\URLs\Important URLs

I am not sure if this will prevent users from having their home pages
changed by malicious code found on some pages on the web. For that you would
probably have to fiddle with the permissions on the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

--
Dennis B.



Re: Restrict users from changing IE home page by Nick

Nick
Sat May 01 09:25:06 CDT 2004

"Dennis Balogh" <posttest@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%235b8f$1LEHA.808@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Nick Hill wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > We have a corporate intranet home page which we want all users to
> > retain as their IE home page. Is there some way that we can stop
> > users from changing their home page?
> >
> > Looking in gpedit the only likely active directory control seems to
> > be to disable the IE general tab.
> >
> > Is there any other way?
> >
> > Regards
> > Nick
>
> Try this in the group policy:
>
> Enable User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Internet
Explorer\Disable
> changing homepage settings
>
> Set the page under User Configuration\Windows Settings\Internet Explorer
> Maintenance\URLs\Important URLs
>
> I am not sure if this will prevent users from having their home pages
> changed by malicious code found on some pages on the web. For that you
would
> probably have to fiddle with the permissions on the following registry
key:
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
>
> --
> Dennis B.

Looks good Dennis, thanks very much.

Regards
Nick