Friday, February 17, 2012

Group Policy to restrict or disable any feature for client


How to use GPM (Group Policy Management) for a particular client.

It helps to restrict clients in offices, industrial place, bank, scientist research etc.What happens if we use gpm for any department à It can restrict clients computer features eg – he cant change desktop wallpaper, can not install any software or uninstall it ,he can not restart computer , cannot use internet or any particular site for e.g. facebook, hiding taskbar ,cannot change time & date etc many of features available in window server 2008 r2 to restrict user not to use many of features.

Steps to use gpm for any organization are:-



1> Start/Administrator tolls/select Active Directory User & Computer.



2> Now choice your domain (mydomain.com) now right click on it /new/organization unit/fill and finish it.


3>New tab will open name it and click OK.


4> Simply after making this Organization unit hit OK /password/finish. And after this process make user in rahul (your organization unit)


5> After making user in your organization unit folder .open group policy to implement any type of restrictions.

6>Hit OK on group policy mangment. New tab will open.



7> Expand all as given above and select your domain now expand it.
8> After giving policy name/password/finish .(right click on your created GPO and select edit )

9>After editing expand some feature's. as given below.


              10 > Now after selecting display . many options will show on right hand side.
            11> Right click on any any option and first read explanation and enable it .you can enable many other options also like control panel hide , task bar ,start menu or explorer etc.


            12> Note:- Dont use many setings enabled at a one time because gpupdate /force can not apply all changed settings to the client computer , select one or two program enabled at a time .So open RUN prompt to apply the condition forcefully , now simply write gpupdate /force (space before / ) & press enter.
13> Do this two or four time to update your policy on client computer.



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