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We are an educational institution and for exam purposes we need to block the students from accessing the help files of Microsoft Office 2003, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP SP2. This is to prevent the students from finding the answers during exams.
This however needs to be done via some sort of Group Policy, and not by simply deleting the help files from the computer, as these files will be needed when normal class times occur.
In our case, each student has 2 usernames, one is used for normal class times, and the 2nd is used for exams. Hence the idea behind using Group Policy's
The one thought we have on this is to block all *.hlp extensions via a group Policy object in Active Directory for the exam accounts. with this in mind, are there any other "Help" file extensions that we could try use? (has not been tested yet to see if this solves our problem)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. and they do not have to be related to the use of Group Policies nor File Extension blocking
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Thanks for your input mtdanielson
I dont want to leave this question open too much longer.
We have blocked the externsions in AD and thanks to your suggestion of CHM files, that has also been incldued.
As with the software policy restrictions we have opted not to use that in our case.
Thanks for your input.
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by: mtdanielsonPosted on 2008-04-18 at 12:00:31ID: 21388682
In addition to .hlp, I recommend blocking the .chm (HTML Compiled Help File) extension as well, as most current applications release these extensions.
It sounds like you're on the right path with using GPO - specifically you'll be looking at Software Restriction Policies. There's information on file extension blocking specifically at http://support.microsoft.c
Additionally, you can restrict specific keys and actions within the apps (such as online help) by disabling the objects Control ID within the GPO. You can see more about it here:
http://technet.microsoft.c