MS antispyware and GPO

[Ray Stone]

Hello all-

I've had a user run the MS Antispyware beta and he selected
http://www.msn.com as the default home page during the browser hijack
prevention portion of the setup. The PC is in a corporate environment,
using Windows 2003 AD and utilizing group policy. One of the GPO
settings sets the default home page to a corporate intranet page. It
seems that the GP setting is no longer effective after the AntiSpyware
software set the default home page.

Shouldn't group policy override the Antispyware settings?

Thanks for the input.
Ray

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Interesting information, Ray, should post more in newsgroups about your
experiences with GPO and AntiSpyware Beta 1, because a lot of users have
been asking questions concerning the product running in Enterprise
environment. I'm sorry I don't have an answer for your question.

Andre

 

[Stan]

Your group policy setting may need to be extended to
prevent local users from changing the homepage.

Check the roaming profile settings also within your active
directory and group policy settings.

 

[Ray Stone]

I do have roaming profiles turned on for some users in the domain but
not this particular user.

In regards to setting the default home page manually, the users are not
allowed to (i.e. the option is grayed out) once the I specify a home
page in the GPO.

Once this tools gets out of beta, I'd like to roll it out and control
its settings via GPO. I presume that MS is working on a template that
can be used for just that purpose.

Ray