asked on

Screensaver lockout GPO problems

Experts,
I have a screensaver lockout policy applied at the top of the domain.
Every domain member, including servers and DC's have this policy applied.
My situation is that I need to exclude certain machines from having this policy applied as thes machines are in meeting rooms etc..... As this policy is a user policy how do I apply this policy to hardware?

I've touched on the the loopback group policy setting but I could not get that working. I also tried moving hardware to a different container and applying a seperate policy.

I'm struggling a little with this!!

Can you experts point me in the right direction please?

Mike

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

oBdA

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

ocon827679

Is that all that the policy does? If so, then create a goup and place all the computers that you don't want to have the policy into the group. Then on the group policy object go to the properties page and select the security tab. Add the group but deselect the "Apply" permission. This will filter the policy so that the group members will not have it applied.

If the policy does more than just lock the screen, then you're better off with the loopback policy that oBdA recommends.

oBdA

ocon827679,
this won't work. The screen saver is a *user* specific setting, so there is absolutely *nothing* (well, except the Loopback policy) you can do with *computer* accounts to prevent them form applying.

ocon827679

idiot! yup you're right

mf_read

ASKER

oBdA,

Thanks for the reply, I'll try this today and let you know how I get on :)