RE: Can we really block users from installing applications through Group policy?

From: Jesse Weigert (weigert_at_gravitec.com)
Date: 10/15/04

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    To: "'Matt'" <mhoppes@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:23:35 -0700

    Try the professional version with "Thaw Space". You can just set the whole
    Documents and Settings folder as an unfrozen directory and DeepFreeze will
    leave it alone.

    -Jesse Weigert

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Matt [mailto:mhoppes@gmail.com]
    Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:00 PM
    To: Jesse Weigert
    Cc: chang zhu; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Re: Can we really block users from installing applications through
    Group policy?

    I agree that deepfreeze is a wonderful program and is great for things like
    labs, but how do you use it in your corporate environment?
    Don't things like outlook express and such lose settings? It seems to me
    that outlook express by default saves mail to the LOCAL SETTINGS directory
    which doesn't migrate.

    On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:25:35 -0700, Jesse Weigert <weigert@gravitec.com>
    wrote:
    > A very easy way to stop users from installing software is to install
    > Deepfreeze. It basically locks the hard drive down so that if users
    > do install software or make changes to the system, they are reset the
    > next time the computer reboots. I have found this to MUCH more
    > effective than any Windows policy restriction. I even let users log
    > in as local administrators so that I don't have to deal with software
    > incompatibilities with permissions. If they hose their system up or
    > get a virus, it is deleted the next time they reboot their system.
    >
    > -Jesse Weigert
    >
    >
    >

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