Re: Group Policy Editor



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

ed black <edblack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:



Not sure what you searched for in Help & Support - even *outside* of
MCE, this would not be a group policy issue. If you google for
"limited user" application error <etc> you will find a lot.

Right, I never googled 'limited user' application error.


You ought to be complaining to the doofuses who wrote the third party
applications which your end users cannot run. :-)




Thanks for clarifying that sysinternal app. I'll look into that
later. I'll try to walk through the 'Help and Support' on the start
menu

Open Help and Support
Pick a Help topic -- System administration
Security and administration tools
Overviews, articles, and tutorials -- Using Group Policy

OK - bu why would you search for or pick that option? Again: this isn't a
policy issue at all. It's really no more useful in your situation than if
you searched for "how do I use Notepad.exe" :-)

It went something like I found the problem, went to microsoft, typed in some
questions and keywords, 'user can't run software' 'user account problem'
stuff like that. Everything led to group policy editor so I went to run as
and did gpedit.msc and didn't understand it, so I went to the H&S and looked
it up



"In an environment where you have one stand-alone computer or
several computers joined in a workgroup, you can still use Group
Policy to customize your computer.

To open Group Policy

Click Start, and then click Run.
Type gpedit.msc and then click OK.
When Group Policy opens, you will see two options in Local Computer
Policy: Computer Configuration and User Configuration. Computer
Configuration allows you to set policies that apply to your computer,
regardless of who logs on. User Configuration allows you to set
policies that apply to each user who logs on to the computer."


" To open the Software Installation snap-in
Open the Group Policy snap-in.
To assign software applications to computers, in the console tree
double-click Computer Configuration. To assign or publish software
applications to users, in the console tree double-click User
Configuration. Double-click Software Settings, and then click
Software installation. Where?

policy name Policy
Computer Configuration (or User Configuration)
Software Settings
Software installation"


And at the part where I get to 'Software Installation' it's not
there.
I open up the Software Settings Folder and it's empty. It's a dead
end. Nothing to do in the 'Software Settings Folder'

I gotta run. I'll look at the process thing after work.

Thanks again Lanwench

No problem. I think you're correct in that there's an error in the Help &
Support (without a domain, you technically don't have group policy - you
just have a local policy).

However, this is not a group policy thing - you don't even have group policy
because you aren't on a domain. You have a local policy, and you do NOT want
to mess with it - you'd end up locking yourself out too.


You say it's not a group policy thing and technet.microsoft says it is. I'm
willing to try your fix, but so far I'm at a loss at what my next step would
be after I dl the process monitor and run it.

This is a permissions issue, plain and simple - in the file system & perhaps
also in the registry. And it's due to the developers.


I can't be the only one with MCE who has this issue. I'd like to report it,
but like I've said before, there is no 'submit a bug to the developer' link
that I can find



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