Thanks, everybody, for your replies. I thought it would work fine with
no "technical" issues (political ones are inevitable, of course).

Meanwhile, David Adner wrote:

> This IE setting can be applied via "policy mode" or 
> "preferences mode".
> Policy mode is what you normally think of when configuring 
> GPO settings in
> that it'll be reset if a user ever changes it.  Preferences mode only
> changes the initial value but allows the user to change it 
> afterwards if
> they like without having it switch back each time GPOs are applied.
> Instead, it is only reset if the GPO itself is modified.

I can't seem to find those distinctions. I'd love to be able to reset
everybody's home page just for their initial login after all the
training is done, and let them reset it if they want to, and let it stay
that way. I see where you can set it as "enforced" which I did not do,
but our testing shows that everytime somebody logs off and then on
again, they'll get the intranet start page regardless of whether they
changed it or not.

In fact, one of our testers discovered that if she closes all instances
of IE, then waits five minutes or so, starting IE back up again once
again resets her homepage, even if she didn't log off the machine.

Gotta love all this fun we're having!

In a few days, it'll be a moot point. Some exec will decide they don't
like it, and I'll be instructed to take it off.

-- 
Larry Wahlers
Concordia Technologies
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
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