Re: Editing Group Policies

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/28/05


Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:36:59 -0400

Group policies apply to all users on a computer that is not in a domain environment. See www.dougknox.com, Win XP Utilities, Windows XP Security Console for an application that will allow you to enforce a good set of restrictions on a per-user basis.

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"Jake Sherlock" <Jake Sherlock@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:59B83368-418D-40EF-AEA0-3932D4C715DD@microsoft.com...
> Boy I am confused. My man concern is to limit the Guest account to the hi 
> nines. The best way to do this I can see is to edit the group policies, but. 
> When I edit them it makes the changes over all accounts. I have tried to go 
> into mmc and add a snap-in called group policy. The main one is the local 
> computer. I was going to change it to the guest group but couldn't. My 
> question is how do I get the same options as in Local Computer Policy\User 
> Configuration\Administrative Templates. There are a lot of options there that 
> I would like to use against the guest account. Please help.
> 
> -Jake Sherlock


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