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by dennis2841 1 view

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I am helping administer a small highschool's network.... We are currently using the windows policy editor to control certain user logons.. Example students cannot access the run command or run several programs... We specify a perticular wallpaper sothat we know how they are logged on. Well now we are starting to get some Windows 2000 and XP Machines.... How can we do the dame thing from those OS's

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by cavedweller

You can do all that and more using group policy in Windows 2000. You need to use a Windows 2000 server to make it work well (otherwise you have to set the local policy on each machine).

You can easily apply the same policy to groups of users or machines. Different groups can get different policies. You can create several policies and select which to apply and in what order.

The online help in the policy editor is pretty decent. The resource kit is well worth the money and provides alot of information and some examples.

by olisao55

All you have to do on the local machine is go to the run command and type mmc this will bring up the microsoft management console. Then go to file add/remove snap in, hit the add button and it will bring up a list of snapins. Group policy is one of those. From there on it is very self explanatory. Good Luck~!!!

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