[gptalk] Re: User Hive settings set during logon....
- From: "Nelson, Jamie R" <Jamie.Nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:44:38 -0500
You point out some valid concerns. I usually try to avoid them myself,
but it is an option if you can't make things work any other way.
I would try the WMI filter I suggested below. You might also look into
what the GPP CSE can do for you. I think there are some registry match
targeting options in there you could use to read the AD Site from the
registry before enabling the setting.
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Smith, Brad
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:10 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: User Hive settings set during logon....
Ah, site based group policies. I have intentionally ignored them. We
don't use them at the moment (bear in mind we have a fair number of GPO
admins) and I wanted to avoid them because:
A) They introduce an extra level of complexity when diagnosing GPO
problems.
B) They reside on DC's for the domain they were created in and do not
have representation on DC's from other domains in the same forest,
meaning they are copied across the WAN unless you have a DC locally,
which we don't. Thus in turn creates GPO timeout problems (I wonder if
Paul Snell's "Login Time Issues" thread is related to this btw) that I
don't want to introduce. I know that I could rule out applying them by
using GPO filtering, but have steered clear of them because as soon as I
permit it for one reason, the flood gates will open and every business
request will want a site based GPO for something or other.
I have stood by these principles for refusing Site Based GPO since Beta
testing W2K, but am always willing to revisit any opinion of mine on
such matters.
So All, do you happily and readily deploy Site based GPO's? Eager to
hear thoughts on this one.......
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nelson, Jamie R
Sent: 11 March 2008 17:36
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: User Hive settings set during logon....
Actually, this is not necessary if you link at the AD Site level. You
would have to have 2 GPOs (1 to enable, 1 to disable). Link each
"disable" GPO to every AD Site, and the "enable" GPO (with security
filtering) to only the AD Sites you want. You will of course have to
change the link order so that the enable GPO wins out if it passes
security filtering.
Don't know why that didn't hit me at first, but it is an option.
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nelson, Jamie R
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:23 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: User Hive settings set during logon....
You might be able to do something like that by querying
Win32_Environment and looking at the %LOGONSERVER% variable. You
wouldn't directly be able to get the site name, but you check and see
which DC they are authenticated to.
SELECT * FROM Win32_Environment WHERE Name = "LOGONSERVER" AND
(VariableValue = "DC1" OR VariableValue="DC2")
Something like that may work for you.
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Smith, Brad
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:05 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: User Hive settings set during logon....
What I want to achieve is to enable LCS Video conferencing for a limited
group of users (simple enough application of security filtering) but
only when they are authenticated to a site from a list of appropriate
sites. So the logic would be:
if the user is in "Enable LCS Group" <-- Handled by security filtering
AND the user has logged into "Site_Permitted_For_LCS_Video" <- Handled
by vbscript
then enable it, <- Here lies the problem, as the user doesn't have
permission to this key (quite rightfully so I agree)
Else
leave it as it is.
The perfect solution would be to evaluate the site via WQL and filter
the GPO on that, is getting the site name back from a WQL query
possible?
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: 11 March 2008 16:49
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: User Hive settings set during logon....
Right. That's on purpose! Users should not be able to modify their
policy settings, otherwise Group Policy would be fairly useless J
I'm curious why you want users to be able to modify these settings?
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Smith, Brad
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:21 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: User Hive settings set during logon....
I would of thought so too, and thought this task would be a no brainer,
check HCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator on a XP SP2 build, it
is definitely set to read only for the user.
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nelson, Jamie R
Sent: 11 March 2008 15:54
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: User Hive settings set during logon....
That doesn't sound right. If it is in HKCU the user should (by default)
be able to modify it.
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Smith, Brad
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:49 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] User Hive settings set during logon....
All,
Is there a way to configure permissions on registry key in the HKCU
hive? I want to run a startup script that modifies a key in this hive
from the user portion of the GPO, but the user only has read only access
to it by default. Any ideas?
TIA,
Brad
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