RE: [ActiveDir] Internet Explorer Home Page Question

[Steve Rochford]

A similar kind of approach is to have a registry key in both HKLM and HKCU for "your" software - eg all our machines have HKLM\software\CNWL and HKCU\software\CNWL   Under these you can have a variety of values to do whatever you want. In this case, I'd have the logon script check the value of (say) HKCU\software\HKCU\HomePageSet. If it's not there then you set the homepage and set the registry value to 1 (or, even better, set it to a date - if ever you want to change things in the future you can do it for people who were set before or after some date)   the downside of this is that everyone will be affected at least once; you could avoid this by checking the datecreated value for ntuser.dat - if it's today then they really are a new user so you check the registry and update the home page (both checks needed so you don't upset someone who logs on at 0900; sees the forced home page, resets it to his desired page and then logs back on after lunch to find it's all gone wrong again!)   Steve  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair, James Sent: 18 November 2005 02:48 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Internet Explorer Home Page Question Michael,   You could create a new user security group and a GPO for the homepage. Use security filtering so that group only gets the policy. Remove the new users from the group after x days.   James   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Friday, 18 November 2005 12:29 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Internet Explorer Home Page Question   How about a logon script to take care of this? Check for a HKCU key/value. If it’s not there, assume it’s the first logon and set their homepage and then set the homepage.   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Micheal S. Mand Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Internet Explorer Home Page Question   Hello,   I just joined the list, so forgive me if this has been answered already.   I’ve been put to the task of using AD to set the home page of all NEW users to our company intranet, but not override the current user’s settings. We want this to happen automatically because we are usually creating new users with little notice, and very little time to make the account active. I’ve searched and searched all over existence for something related to this, and so far have only come up with some hacks to permanently set every user’s home page the same. We want users to be able to change this home page if they wish, without it resetting every time they log in to their machine. If they log into a new machine, we could also set the home page to the intranet, but this isn’t as necessary.   Has anyone even heard of doing anything like this? Is it even possible?   Thanks in advance, Micheal S. Mand Network Administrator Applied Research Associates, Inc. Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ara.com