Thanks Jacob, That cleared a lot of doubts! What we have done so far is created an OU called Harmony Users, moves some 120 users to this OU and linked some 16 GPO's which we have created in Group Policy Objects, only the Domain Password Policy has been set at the Domain level. I think, as you pointed out, we need to remove the "authenticated users" from delegation. We will do that. All policies are set to hit Harmony Users only. What we are trying to achieve is run a batch file which creates a persistent route. in the batch file the command is "Route add 192.168.3.240 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.2.254. -p" As you said it needs administrator privileges! Intranet Mail Server Route Domain Tai2D.ent Owner TAI2D\Domain Admins User Revisions 2 (AD), 2 (sysvol) Computer Revisions 2 (AD), 2 (sysvol) Unique ID {BD281E8F-6A17-4F05-8022-3015166E4011} GPO Status Enabled Location Enforced Link Status Path Harmony Users Yes Enabled Tai2D.ent/Harmony Users This list only includes links in the domain of the GPO. Security Filteringhide The settings in this GPO can only apply to the following groups, users, and computers:Name TAI2D\Harmony Users Delegationhide These groups and users have the specified permission for this GPOName Allowed Permissions Inherited NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS Read No NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Edit settings, delete, modify security No TAI2D\Domain Admins Edit settings, delete, modify security No TAI2D\Enterprise Admins Edit settings, delete, modify security No TAI2D\Harmony Users Read (from Security Filtering) No Computer Configuration (Enabled)hide Windows Settingshide Scriptshide Startuphide Name Parameters \\Tai2D.ent\SysVol\Tai2D.ent\Policies\{BD281E8F-6A17-4F05-8022-3015166E4011}\Machine\Scripts\mailsrv_route.bat Thanks for writing :-) regards Ananth. On Jan 23, 2008 7:47 PM, Jakob H. Heidelberg <jakob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, Ananth, > > > > Actually I think the answer is pretty straight forward: Startup (and > Shutdown) scripts can be setup for Computer objects – for User objects you > can choose Login or Logoff scripts. > > > > I'm not sure if a regular user is able to define a route (with ROUTE ADD) > – definitely not a persistent route? – but that can be tested by running the > script you have in regular user context. I (or better yet "we") might be > able to come up another solution for this (maybe by using GP Preference > which is soon to arrive) – but first let us know whether or not it's correct > what I think you are trying to do. > > > > BTW – the security permissions (delegation) set on the "Internal Mail > Server Rout" GPO is set to apply to both "Authenticated Users" and > "TAI2D\Harmony Users" – I believe you might want to remove "Authenticated > Users". But if you are "hitting" an OU with only the right users, then you > wouldn't need the "Harmony Users" group anyway. Well, just a side note – > only relevant if you have to "hit" user objects. > > > > Regards > > /Jakob > > > > *From:* gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On > Behalf Of *Ananth Rajagopal > *Sent:* 23. januar 2008 12:20 > *To:* gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* [gptalk] adding persistent route > > > > Hi All, > > We are setting up a new domain and have added some policies and scripts. > For a particular group of users, we want to add a persistent route to a > server in another subnet. we created a bat file but the bat file is not > running! Everything seeme to be ok, but still... > > The file is set in this groups OU. The bat file is copied to the Scripts > folder in SYSVOL. The starup script is set in...... > > Intranet Mail Server Route > > Domain Tai2D.ent > Owner TAI2D\Domain Admins > User Revisions 2 (AD), 2 (sysvol) > Computer Revisions 2 (AD), 2 (sysvol) > Unique ID {BD281E8F-6A17-4F05-8022-3015166E4011} > GPO Status Enabled > > Linkshide > Location Enforced Link Status Path > Harmony Users Yes Enabled Tai2D.ent/Harmony Users > > This list only includes links in the domain of the GPO. > Security Filteringhide > The settings in this GPO can only apply to the following groups, users, > and computers:Name > NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users > TAI2D\Harmony Users > > Computer Configuration (Enabled)hide > Windows Settingshide > Scriptshide > Startuphide > Name Parameters > \\Tai2D.ent\SysVol\Tai2D.ent\Policies\{BD281E8F-6A17-4F05-8022-3015166E4011}\Machine\Scripts\mailsrv_route.bat > > > Please advice.... > > regards > Ananth :-) > >