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Group Policy

I made an OU called testOU then made a user and put the test user in the OU. I then started messing with the group policy Management. I can get it to do just about everything i want except for a few that i cant seem to get to work.

1. Hide the notification area
2. remove the clock from the system notification area
3.There was an option in the task bar and start up area that prevented you from resizing the task bar and i got that to work one time but now i cant seem to find that option again. I want to make it so i can hide the task bar and the user wont be able to change it or resize it.

any ideas?

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Steve McCarthy, MCSE, MCSA, MCP x8, Network+, i-Net+, A+, CIWA, CCNA, FDLE FCIC, HIPAA Security Officer

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Nirmal Sharma

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jjatsk

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Well i checked this morning and it has been well over 90min. Also we tried logging off and then back on every time we changed a setting on there. I checked the ADM files and the ones you listed above were all there i even added 3 more but they were for Win95,98. Its just wierd that i can get 99% of them to work except for a few of them. I just want to be able to hide the task bar or take it away so the remote clients cannot mess with it. I have a couple impotant things running down by the clock that i dont want them to mess with. If i do that regestry tweak would i do that on the server or all the client computers? I just want it so when they log in remotely they cant change that task bar. Thanks again for the feedback.

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Nirmal Sharma

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jjatsk

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Well i checked out the tools and they were ok. One thing we tried was logging in to a computer here within the network with the test user account and it all worked but when we try it using the remote desktop it doesnt work well just the few that i was talking about anyways. Moving the task bar and hiding the notification area.

jjatsk

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This is what it sayed when we remoted in to the test user account and ran this. Not really sure what it means.

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\test>gpresult
Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 2000 Operating System Group Policy Result tool
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-1999

Created on Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 9:02:04 AM

Operating System Information:

Operating System Type: Server
Operating System Version: 5.0.2195.Service Pack 4
Terminal Server Mode: Application Server

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User Group Policy results for:

CN=TEST GUY,OU=TEST OU,DC=hospitalcooperative,DC=com

Domain Name: HOSPITALCOOPERA
Domain Type: Windows 2000
Site Name: Default-First-Site-Name

Roaming profile: (None)
Local profile: C:\Documents and Settings\test

The user is a member of the following security groups:

HOSPITALCOOPERA\Domain Users
\Everyone
BUILTIN\Users
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
\LOCAL

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Last time Group Policy was applied: Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 9:01:48 AM
Group Policy was applied from: denver2003.hospitalcooperative.com

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The user received "Registry" settings from these GPOs:

Testgpo

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Computer Group Policy results for:

CN=DENVER2000,CN=Computers,DC=hospitalcooperative,DC=com

Domain Name: HOSPITALCOOPERA
Domain Type: Windows 2000
Site Name: Default-First-Site-Name

The computer is a member of the following security groups:

BUILTIN\Administrators
\Everyone
BUILTIN\Users
HOSPITALCOOPERA\DENVER2000$
HOSPITALCOOPERA\Domain Computers
NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users

###############################################################

Last time Group Policy was applied: Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 8:07:18 AM
Group Policy was applied from: denver2003.hospitalcooperative.com

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The computer received "Registry" settings from these GPOs:

Local Group Policy
Default Domain Policy

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The computer received "Security" settings from these GPOs:

Local Group Policy
Default Domain Policy

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The computer received "EFS recovery" settings from these GPOs:

Local Group Policy
Default Domain Policy

C:\Documents and Settings\test>

jjatsk

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Is it possible that windows 2000 server doesnt support the option to disable the taskbar or notification area? I am setting the group policy up on my 2003 DC and the remote people or coming in on the 2000 server. Maybe i am missing something there?????No idea