Guest Gavin Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 Hi All, We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers to stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our company’s policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a message about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still logged to the event log, but the user doesn’t see any message? Thanks in advance, Gavin
Guest Gavin Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 RE: Software Restriction Policy Answered in microsoft.public.windows.group_policy "Gavin" wrote: > Hi All, > > We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers to > stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our > company’s policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a message > about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was > wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still > logged to the event log, but the user doesn’t see any message? > > Thanks in advance, > Gavin
Guest Jeff Pitsch Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: Software Restriction Policy What's the answer for the rest of us? -- Jeff Pitsch Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services "Gavin" <Gavin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E7A65090-0656-4671-A25A-2714DE9388E7@microsoft.com... > Answered in microsoft.public.windows.group_policy > > "Gavin" wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers >> to >> stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our >> company's policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a >> message >> about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was >> wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still >> logged to the event log, but the user doesn't see any message? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Gavin
Guest Gavin Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 Re: Software Restriction Policy As written in microsoft.public.windows.group_policy: Gavin, Gavin wrote: > We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers to > stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our > companies policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a message > about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was > wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still > logged to the event log, but the user doesn’t see any message? As far as I know, this is built into Windows/Explorer and that function is not accessibly through the registry or any other setting. So I'm sorry but you cannot suppress that message. Apart from that and as a personal side note as this was not part of your question, I'd like to add: if it's a written policy at your shop that people don't need to run unwanted applications, go sanction them. What they do is something management has approved to be "not wanted" and they are knowingly violenting that policy. They're only making your life harder - beating human problems with technical restrictions is something really hard to achieve. cheers, Florian -- Microsoft MVP - Group Policy eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net. blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog. Maillist (german): http://frickelsoft.net/cms/index.php?page=mailingliste
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