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Displaying a message at logon for a group of users

Hello,

I use AD at my school and want to display a message after log-on to a specific group of users. I have these users in an OU. I know about the group policy that allows a security message to be displayed after ctrl-alt-del - but this effects all computers within the OU and not a subset of users on any computer within the domain (does it not?)

This may be a case of using a log on script for this OU - if this is the simplest solution could somebody point me in the right direction please?

Thanks very much,

Ben

Pete Long

Fundementally Ben you cant apply policies to a group - create an OU within the existing OU and apply a policy to that

You can apply a registry change just for that OU that sets the following registry keys

To display a Login message on every machine Go to the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and in the following keys paste in this text...

LegalNoticeCaption <Title of the Message>
LegalNoticeText <Text of the Message>

CoccoBill

You can filter a GPO to apply to the whole domain, a site, an OU, a group of users/computers or specific users/computers.

I agree a logon script is probably a good way to do this. Add all users that you want the message to be shown to a group. Go on the Properties->Security tab of the GPO object, remove the Authenticated Users group from the ACL list, add the group containing the users and give it Read and Apply GP permissions.

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bgcm12

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Thanks all for the input - a simple VB script seems to be the way to go for this one - works a treat.