Blocking Windows 2000 Games....HELP!!!

[Andy]

Hi all.

I've been trying to inplement a group policy that will
stop the 40 users of my call centre playing the defualt
windows games (yes, I know, I am a scrooge!) I've been
attempting it using the following info...

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323525

But even tho I have done it exactly as it's said (blocking
sol.exe winmine.exe pinball.exe and freecell.exe) it still
won't work.

Does anyone have any idea why, or can point me the in the
right direction? Thanks for your help.

Andy

 

[Shankar Venkatesan]

What u have done is right it will take 2 hours to update .
FYI c the below article which i got from the link u have
given.

Group Policy background processing can take up to 5
minutes to be refreshed on domain controllers and up to
120 minutes to be refreshed on client computers.

To force background processing of Group Policy settings,
use the Secedit.exe tool:

Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK.

Type secedit /refreshpolicy user_policy /enforce, and then
press ENTER.

Type secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce, and
then press ENTER.

Type exit, and then press ENTER to quit the command prompt.

 

[Andy]

Thanks Shankar.

Unfortuntaley I did it three times last week. All leaving
a good day before trying it. Still wouldn't work.

Thanks for your advice tho. Much appreciated.

Any other ideas?

 

[Rick]

Will try to give you a little help here. There is a MS news group for just
group policy which would probably be more help. However you can use gpresult
to monitor what GP is doing. To further elaborate gpresult is a command line
tool which list the following when you use /? as an option.

C:\Documents and Settings\ricks.SHERIFF>gpresult /?

GPRESULT [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]] [/SCOPE scope]
[/USER targetusername] [/V | /Z]

Description:
This command line tool displays the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)
for a target user and computer.

Parameter List:
/S system Specifies the remote system to connect
to.

/U [domain\]user Specifies the user context under which
the command should execute.

/P [password] Specifies the password for the given
user context. Prompts for input if omitted.

/USER [domain\]user Specifies the user name for which the
RSOP data is to be displayed.

/SCOPE scope Specifies whether the user or the
computer settings needs to be
displayed.
Valid values: "USER", "COMPUTER".

/V Specifies that the verbose information
is to be displayed. Verbose information
details specific settings that have
been applied with a precedence of 1.

/Z Specifies that the super-verbose
information is to be displayed. Super-
verbose information details specific
settings that have been applied with a
precedence of 1 and higher. This allows
you to see if a setting was set in
multiple places. See the Group Policy
online help for more information.

/? Displays this help/usage.

NOTE: If you run GPRESULT without parameters, it returns the RSoP data
for the current logged-on user on the computer it was run on.

Examples:
GPRESULT
GPRESULT /USER targetusername /V
GPRESULT /S system /USER targetusername /SCOPE COMPUTER /Z
GPRESULT /S system /U username /P password /SCOPE USER /V




If you go to the GP news group and ask about monitoring GP application I'm
sure you will get a more complete answer that will help