GPO to Regulate

[Guest]

Hello,

Can i use group policy to block people from access web site like ebay.com
etc and block ports for AIM, IM, yahoo messenger, annd other?

Thanks
Joe

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You certainly can use your firewall or ipsec filtering via Group Policy to
restrict what ports/protocols/IP addresses a "computer" can access. To
control user access, application "tunneling", and control website usage you
really need something like Microsoft ISA 2004 as a proxy gateway server to
the internet to control access or possibly a firewall device with advanced
content filtering capabilities. You can get a free trial version of ISA
2004 to try out for 120 days.--- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/ -- ISA 2004.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/isa/2004/plan/httpfiltering.mspx
--- ISA 2004 http filtering capabilities.
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1559 -- ipsec filtering basics.