Global SP2 popup manager settings

[Guest]

Hi all! I'm slowly rolling out SP2 to about 80 boxes (with very few problems
I'm happy to say) but I've got an annoyance that I can't find referenced
anywhere I've looked.

The IE popup manager settings (specifically, the sites being allowed to
popup) are unique to the current user but we have up to 4 users using a PC.
After the SP2 install, I would like to set the "popups allowed" sites so that
any subsequent user gets those in his/her IE popup manager. I found the
registry settings for popups in both HKCU and HKU and tried copying them to
HKLM, but to no effect (I've had success doing this before with some Office
settings for example).

Anyone have any bright ideas?

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hi all! I'm slowly rolling out SP2 to about 80 boxes (with very few problems
I'm happy to say) but I've got an annoyance that I can't find referenced
anywhere I've looked.

The IE popup manager settings (specifically, the sites being allowed to
popup) are unique to the current user but we have up to 4 users using a PC.
After the SP2 install, I would like to set the "popups allowed" sites so that
any subsequent user gets those in his/her IE popup manager. I found the
registry settings for popups in both HKCU and HKU and tried copying them to
HKLM, but to no effect (I've had success doing this before with some Office
settings for example).

Anyone have any bright ideas?

Hi

If Active Directory, see group policy "Administrative Templates
\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Pop-up allow list" under
User Configuration.


If the above is not an option, here is another way:

Configure a computer the way you want the pop-up allowed list to be.

Then export this registry key to a registry file:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow

Copy that registry file to each computer, and under the Run registry
key on the computers, add the following command:

regedit.exe /s "path to reg file here"

(is spaces in the path to the reg file, you need to keep the quotes)

Now this registry file will silently be imported each time a user
logs on to the computer.

INFO: Run, RunOnce, RunServices, RunServicesOnce and Startup
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;179365

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

How to export Internet Explorer Pop-up blocker settings and apply to other systems ?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/popexport.htm

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Hi all! I'm slowly rolling out SP2 to about 80 boxes (with very few problems
I'm happy to say) but I've got an annoyance that I can't find referenced
anywhere I've looked.

The IE popup manager settings (specifically, the sites being allowed to
popup) are unique to the current user but we have up to 4 users using a PC.
After the SP2 install, I would like to set the "popups allowed" sites so that
any subsequent user gets those in his/her IE popup manager. I found the
registry settings for popups in both HKCU and HKU and tried copying them to
HKLM, but to no effect (I've had success doing this before with some Office
settings for example).

Anyone have any bright ideas?

 

[Sir Timbit]

Make sure you've installed the updated ADM files for the pop-up blocker
settings to be shown in Group Policy.
And see Microsoft's KB 842933

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842933

 

[Guest]

Hi

If Active Directory, see group policy "Administrative Templates
\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Pop-up allow list" under
User Configuration.

Sorry about that Torgeir, I KNEW there was something that I neglected to
mention in my post and that was the domain is an NT4.

If the above is not an option, here is another way:

Configure a computer the way you want the pop-up allowed list to be.

Then export this registry key to a registry file:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow

Copy that registry file to each computer, and under the Run registry
key on the computers, add the following command:

regedit.exe /s "path to reg file here"

I already knew the registry location of the popup info (my reference to HKCU
above) but it didn't strike me to put it into the Run area. Great idea and
thanks very much for your suggestion!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info Timbit! You're a fellow Canuck with that nickname, right?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info Ramesh!