Software Restriction Policy

[Guest Gavin]

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]

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]

Re: Software Restriction Policy

 

What's the answer for the rest of us?

 

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Jeff Pitsch

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

 

"Gavin" <Gavin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> 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]

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

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Microsoft MVP - Group Policy

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