Disable network bridge by GPO

[William Lo]

Hi,

My company has a Windows 2000 network with XP and 2000 workstations. We are
trying to disable Network Bridge by using GPO, so we took an XP system
template and add it to the Administrative templates on a Windows 2000 DC and
enabled "Prohibit installation and configuration of Network Bridge on your
DNS domain network" from "Local Computer Policy, Computer Configuration,
Administrative Templates, Network, and Network Connections."

It works if there is no network bridge on the XP workstation, but if there
is already a bridge setup, the GPO cannot be applied to it. Any
suggestions? Thanks.

William

 

[Aaron Sankey]

William,

I think that in this instance you are going to have to do a lot of tedious
scripting

You could use the command:

netsh

with the "bridge" switch and then remove bridges that way. The down side is
that you will probably need to know the names of the local area network
connections. You could get that using ipconfig, but you are going to have to
parse out all of the non-relevant information...

That is where things get tedious

I hope that helps some...

Aaron Sankey, Avanade