Group Policy and Local Users and Groups

From: Matt Osborne (mosborne@verinex.com)
Date: 06/25/02 

From: "Matt Osborne" <mosborne@verinex.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:26:28 -0700

I have working on a software suite designed to increase the level of
security on NT4, windows 2000 and XP Professional. So far everything is
working nicely, and it looks good. I am now working on the management end
of our suite and I am having some problems. For W2K and XP Pro we have
decided to use MMC as the interface to modify settings. Our suite stores
properties for individual users, and in my research on MMC I found an app
that extends the Local Users and Groups snap-ins. I have been able to write
an extension with only one problem. I have not found a good way of
determining if Local Users and Groups is administering the local machine or
a remote machine. I have had a similar experience with Group Policy. We
have decided to extend the Security Settings snap-in to add our policies. I
know that this can be done because there are other snap-ins that extend this
snap-in, like IP security. I have also found no way of determining if I am
looking at a local machine or not with this snap in as well. I have posted
about these problems many times in many groups, but so far no one has been
able to help.

Matt Osborne

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