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I.E. losing default home pages

I have a WIN7 workstation on a SBS 2008 domain. I have Internet Explorer configured to open several different home pages when run (yahoo, news, etc.). Every so often, I lose these home page settings and they revert to the companyweb home page for all windows. Why is it doing this and how do I stop this behavior?

Azhrei1

it's in your group policy on the server. It determines the home page settings for all joined clients in your company.

Log on to your server, find the Group Policy editor in the start menu under administrative tools. Then the option in under user settings, internet explorer maintenance (from the top of my head! hehe)

h4himanshu

I think that your company's system administrators have setup a group policy (in Active Directory) to set companyweb home page as default in IE and I doubt if they will change it for you.

cybera

SBS 2008 server enforce the Home Page to be http://companyweb. You can disable by going to Admin tools > Group Policy management > windows SBS user policy > windows settings > IE maintenance >> Home Page URL

Mark

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Thanks for the responses. The instruction *almost* got me there. Once I get to the Group Policy Management screen, I don't see a clear-cut selection for Windows SBS User Policy > windows settings. Attached is an image of my Group Policy screen with the Windows SBS User Policy expanded. I've looked under the various "Windows Settings" folders, but nothing jumps out at me as dealing with home page settings.

I need more help drilling down on this.
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Azhrei1

So, you're in the right spot, just need to click down a few more :) I'm not sure if it's under preferences or policies, since I don't have SBS2008...but it should be under one of those two. Just look for Internet Explorer Maintenance underneath either...:)

Mark

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I think this has worked. One problem is that the user doesn't really know when he loses the home page. After logoff? After reboot? ... But, so far, the pages have "stuck" so we'll call this solved. Thanks!

Azhrei1

glad to hear! And to answer your final question: this gets refreshed while logged in every so often (determined by group policy refresh interval). But also gets refreshed at login :)