Restricting users at work....

[BT7990]

This may not be the right forum?..

This is for any network / systems analysts or anyone who has used policy editor. At work we are trying to create an image with Win98 and policy editor for our users. We have it pretty restricted using policy editor, but are having a problem with MS Office applications. The problem is that they can see the C: drive when any MS application is open through the open>look in> drop down menu. Anyone know of a registry hack that will hide or control the options in that drop down box? Ideally we would like My Documents to show, or just hide the C: drive. None of the settings in policy editor have any control over this.

That's the only "hole" in the image and I've tried numerous hacks without success.

Anyone??

 

[Shadow07]

What version of Office? I know that you can specify the default SAVE location in Office 97 and 2000. Also, ScriptLogic (found here) can allow you to specify policy settings on the fly. Meaning you don't have to deal with the issues with policies if someone like the ADMINISTRATOR logs into the system and needs to change a setting.

What I mean is with policies, they are static and never change unless the actual policy changes. Even though you can create different policies and apply them to certain users/computers/domain groups, the overall system/user policy will almost never work. With ScriptLogic, it will create registry settings for specific users/groups/types of computers, and it will always change the local computer policy back to the original state. ScriptLogic is very similar to that of GPO's in Windows 2000/Active Directory.

Let me know if you need anything else explained or if I did not make sense.