GPO for My Network Places

[DonL]

Anyone, know of a GPO to automatically set up "My Network Places" for users?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[Dave Shaw [MVP]]

What do you mean by "automatically setup My Network Places" for users?

-ds

 

[DonL]

I have users who would rather not learn how to use "My Network Places" in
WindowsXP. There are five or six that they should set up and use regularly.
I want to use a GPO to set them up for each user each time they log on to
the domain. I hope that explains it.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Don,

I will jump in for a second. I am still not sure what you want to be set
up????? Are you talking about the fact that they do not want to click on
five icons? Is that because it takes too long to click on these four or five
icons or because they get confused by the choices? I have a solution for
both situations.

Anyway, they would typically need to double click on My Network Places, then
Entire Network, then Microsoft Windows Network and finally 'domain name'.
There they will have a listing of all of the computer accounts. Could you
not create a shortcut to 'domain name' on each user's desktop? That way
they will not have to "waste their time" and will not be confused by the
choices presented at each level.

But what is it that they are doing that they need to use My Network
Neighborhood?

HTH,

Cary

 

[ptwilliams]

Building on what Cary said, having a shortcut to the domain on the desktop
is also a handy one click search feature. You can just right-click the
shortcut, choose search and you're prompted with the AD Search dialog.


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Don,

I will jump in for a second. I am still not sure what you want to be set
up????? Are you talking about the fact that they do not want to click on
five icons? Is that because it takes too long to click on these four or five
icons or because they get confused by the choices? I have a solution for
both situations.

Anyway, they would typically need to double click on My Network Places, then
Entire Network, then Microsoft Windows Network and finally 'domain name'.
There they will have a listing of all of the computer accounts. Could you
not create a shortcut to 'domain name' on each user's desktop? That way
they will not have to "waste their time" and will not be confused by the
choices presented at each level.

But what is it that they are doing that they need to use My Network
Neighborhood?

HTH,

Cary

 

[DonL]

Maybe, I'm not explaining this very well. Let's try this way:

When I double-click (open) the "My Network Places" icon on my desktop or my
Start Menu, I see five icons (shortcuts) to network places I set up. I want
my users to have these same five icons when they do the same thing on their
desktops. However, I don't want them to have to set them up themselves. I
want to do it for them through Active Directory. Is there a GPO that will do
that?

I hope that better explains what I'm trying to do. Thanks.