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You may be able to achieve this through IE security settings which can be applied through GPO however I don't believe it will affect other browsers. You would have to restrict users to not be able to install alternate browsers to completely achieve what you are looking for.<br />
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<a href="http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles-tutorials/authentication_and_encryption/Restricting-Specific-Web-Sites-Internet-Explorer-Using-Group-Policy.html" rel="ugc">http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles-tutorials/authentication_and_encryption/Restricting-Specific-Web-Sites-Internet-Explorer-Using-Group-Policy.html</a>
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You may be able to achieve this through IE security settings which can be applied through GPO however I don't believe it will affect other browsers. You would have to restrict users to not be able to install alternate browsers to completely achieve what you are looking for.

http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles-tutorials/authentication_and_encryption/Restricting-Specific-Web-Sites-Internet-Explorer-Using-Group-Policy.html [http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles-tutorials/authentication_and_encryption/Restricting-Specific-Web-Sites-Internet-Explorer-Using-Group-Policy.html]

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You could download and install Untangle.<br />
It is a free appliance that does do content filtering.
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You could download and install Untangle.
It is a free appliance that does do content filtering.

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Hello,<br />
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We have an office with server 2003 and xp workstations on our domain.<br />
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I would like to limit the web traffic to three websites:<br />
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* our corporate website<br />
* gmail<br />
* and pandora<br />
<br />
Are there any inexpensive ways of doing this with Group Policy without additional hardware or software?<br />
<br />
We have used Sonicwall content filtering in other offices but this is a small office and they are on a budget.<br />
<br />
Any ideas?
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Hello,

We have an office with server 2003 and xp workstations on our domain.

I would like to limit the web traffic to three websites:

* our corporate website
* gmail
* and pandora

Are there any inexpensive ways of doing this with Group Policy without additional hardware or software?

We have used Sonicwall content filtering in other offices but this is a small office and they are on a budget.

Any ideas?

Server 2003 domain website content filtering

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Content management (CM) is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. When stored and accessed via computers, this information may be more specifically referred to as digital content, or simply as content. Digital content may take the form of text (such as electronic documents), multimedia files (such as audio or video files), or any other file type that follows a content lifecycle requiring management.

Content Management

Hardware-based firewalls provide more sophisticated protection for inbound and outbound traffic than the simple Windows software firewall or the basic NAT firewalls found in routers. These devices implement techniques such as stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and content filtering; and may include built-in antivirus and anti-malware protection.