How to restrict use of I.E.

[Rob Pelletier]

I am building a system to be used as a kiosk - lots of public unsupervised
access, and only one function desired. I want to restrict the use of
Internet Explorer to just two sites, but can't find how to do this anywhere.
I have even tried to disable the system's DNS, and enter the sites into the
hosts file, but one of the sites doesn't seem friendly with this (maybe the
way it's written?) and won't work.

Content Advisor won't restrict a site unless the Content Rating is too
strong (or doesn't exist). Local Group Policy (there's no domain) doesn't
help, as it allows me to put the two sites into the Trusted Zone, but
doesn't allow me to block access completely to the Internet Zone, which I
guess is what I really want to do.

I can't believe that this can't be configured - does anyone know how? Maybe
I need to buy a third-party product?


Thanks for your input.

 

[Kenrick Fu]

Try this MS KB article for help:
How to Configure Internet Explorer to Block Access to All But Approved
Internet Sites (Q267930)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q267930

 

[Rob Pelletier]

That looks handy.

I found this tip which also seems to work:

In Tools/Internet Options/Connection/Lan Settings, set the proxy server to
be 127.0.0.1 port 80
Add to the exceptions list the approved URLs of the approved sites. Sites
are separated by a semicolon.

Of course, you need to block access to this area using Group Policy.

This seems to work just fine, although I like the solution you found better.
I searched for over an hour this morning, and your MS document never came
up.

Now, I need to disable the File, Edit, View, etc. menu...


Thanks for your help.