GPO for IE home page

[JohnB]

Is there a way to configure the User home page setting, based on membership
in a Security Group?
We have a mixed bag of users that have to have a specific existing home
page. And some are in the same department(s). I don't want to change
those.

[Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]]

Hello JohnB,

You can configure a logon script which contains the IE main page with a registry
key for the security group a uuser belongs to.

With KIX http://www.kixtart.org/, it would look like this:

if ingroup("securitygroup")
writevalue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main",
"Start Page", "http://www.yourwebpage.com", "REG_SZ")
endif

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[kj [SBS MVP]]

You can configure a user group policy preference with home page settings for
IE, 5,6, 7, & 8 then apply filtering to a security group. You'd need to have
already deployed the client side for group policy preferences and have
clients that support the functionality. You can also use the registry
setting of user preferences to set the values directly as described by
Meinolf

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/kj

[Dusko Savatovic]

GPO's are linked on an OU.
It is better idea to design your OU strategy to reflect some organizational
and/or geographical division of your company. Place your users in a suitable
OU and link GPO to OU.

OTOH, you can achieve what you wish with some tweaking.

Create OU. Let's say Contoso Projects. Move your users to that OU.
Create GPO and link it to Contoso Projects. Let's name it Graphics Settings.
Configure setting as you wish. In the security filtering area in the Group
Policy Management Console, remove Authenticated Users. Instead, add security
group of your Graphics department.

Create and link another GPO to the same OU. Let's name it Helpdesk Settings.
Repeat the procedure as above configuring different home page and setting
Security filtering as necessary.

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