I am attempting to deploy the entire MS Office 2007 Pro-Plus Suite via a GPO
on a Windows 2003 domain.
The clients I am attempting to deploy to currently have MS Office 2003
installed I would like this uninstalled and then MS Office 2007 installed in

I have created a custom ADM file to add some fields in to the GPO to set the
retention time for I.E. History and also the cache size for IE. I have
imported the ADM file in on a virtual PC that I have taken out of the domain
to test it and when I put the values in they are not ...

I have a win2k3 DC and a bunch of Vista clients.
I'm trying to disable offline files via group policy by disabling Computer
config -> Admin Templates -> Network -> Offline files -> Allow or disallow
use of offline files features.

I am looking for a way to prevent the user name of the currently
logged on user from being displayed when a Windows XP computer is
locked. The reason is that many of our computers are shared and as a
result, users will lock each others' account because they do not pay

Hi all - would really appreciate any help with this one.
I have a GPO which specifies a proxy IP and port ,and a list of sites which
should circumvent the proxy server. Clients running IE6 receive these changes
fine, whereas clients running IE7 do not (or only receive some of the

I have setup a GP to force Proxy settings to users in one OU, but the
settings can be changed from the workstation.  How do I lock the Proxy
settings so they cannot be changed?  Thanks.

How have others managed adobe reader and related updates?  
I need a specific update installed onto most adobe readers and wondering
what others have done to accomplish this in either active directory or group
policy or a custom adm file?

I have 2 subjects here.
First, how do you set the permissions to allow uers to read and apply group
policies?
Second, we have 2 OU for the company, a company user policy and and a

Hi all, this is a totally open question which I can only describe the
sympoms of as our GPO guy is on leave.
We currently load an XP Pro build in a GPO restricted mode.  The user
gets no access to the desktop, my computer, windosw bar, c:\ etc.

Can someone give me a technet article on how to access the group policy
management console?   My workstation is Vista Enterprise 64-bit.
Thanks,
Eric Sabo

I've deployed a painfully simple batch logon script and it hangs every
time I test it.  Here are the contents of the batch script:
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xcopy "\\serverA\DesktopShortcuts\Scanning.lnk" "%homeshare%\desktop" /

I downloaded the IE7 .adm templates and put them in C:\windows\inf in
place of the old inetres.adm.
I then deleted and re-linked the inetres from the GPO I was modifying
so the size would show right and the new IE7 settings would show up.

I am looking to set a Policy to allow a specific ActiveX controll to install
from a specific trusted site.
My clients are locked down so that they cannot install / be prompted to
install ActiveX controls, so when a specific emulation program from a trusted

I try to achieve two things with GPO.
1. Make the "Bottom" as the default in Outlook 07 Reading Pane.
   I have not seen this option in Outlook2007 admin template
2. Make the detail view as default in Windows Explorer.

I'm trying to create a custom SNMP Admin Template for Server 2003. I can't
seem to get a "true policy" to work but I can get a "preference policy" to
work. The true policy creates the registry settings but the SNMP service is
ignoring it. I can still go into the properties of the ...