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by kahunanui

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NT 4 System Policies:

Does anyone know of a way to create a System Policy for COMPUTERS where you can target a number of machines - say all the workstations yet excluding the servers - at one time... similar to the way you can setup group user policies. The "Default Computer" targets *ALL* NT machines. It doesn't appear that you can "group" machines this way.

For example, say I want to create a template and set the browsing parameter "MaintainServerList" to "No" for a number of workstations (or all of them). Is there anyway to do this without having to do them all individually?

Thank you very much!

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by joseph moore

I am not very familiar with using Policy Editor, but I do have a suggestion:
If you apply the policy in a logon script (copying the .POL file to the Netlogon share and envoke it), then why not set up a parameter in the logon script.
Here is what Imean.
In the logon script, instead of just calling the POL file, how about this example. Say COMPUTER1 and COMPUTER2 you want to have the policy on, but not COMPUTER3. Put this in the logon scripts:

REM Apply the POL file to select computers
IF%COMPUTERNAME% == COMPUTER1 GOTO :APPLYPOLICY
IF %COMPUTERNAME% == COMPUTER2 GOTO :APPLYPOLICY
IF %COMPUTERNAME% == COMPUTER3 GOTO :NOAPPLYPOLICY

:APPLYPOLICY
"call the POL file here. I cannot remember the logon script command to do so!"
EXIT

:NOAPPLYPOLICY
EXIT

REM End

So, I think this would work. Put in the computers you want in the logon script with their own IF %COMPUTERNAME% == lines.

Hope this helps.

by kahunanui

Thanks! If you happen to remember the script command that calls the file please let us know. eakamai@mindspring.com

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