GPO for opening home page in new tab not working in IE7

Hi,

I am trying to have IE7 go to the home page each time a new tab is opened
via a GPO. Here is what I have so far:

CLASS USER

CATEGORY "Internet Explorer Tabbed Browsing"
KEYNAME "Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing"

POLICY "ShowTabsWelcome"
PART "ShowTabsWelcome" DROPDOWNLIST
VALUENAME "ShowTabsWelcome"
ITEMLIST
NAME "Yes" VALUE NUMERIC 1
NAME "No" VALUE NUMERIC 0
END ITEMLIST
END PART
END POLICY

POLICY "UseHomePageForNewTab"
PART "UseHomePageForNewTab" DROPDOWNLIST
VALUENAME "UseHomePageForNewPage"
ITEMLIST
NAME "Yes" VALUE NUMERIC 1
NAME "No" VALIE NUMERIC 0
END ITEMLIST
END PART
END POLICY

END CATEGORY

I then import this ADM intto the user node and nothing happens at all. Any
help would be great, it is driving me nuts! :)

Florian
Thu Jun 19 22:47:29 PDT 2008

Joe,

JoeD schrieb:
> CLASS USER
>
> CATEGORY "Internet Explorer Tabbed Browsing"
> KEYNAME "Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing"
> I then import this ADM intto the user node and nothing happens at all. Any
> help would be great, it is driving me nuts! :)

Can you see the Category in the left pane in the tree under
"Administrative Templates? If so, right-click it, select
"View"-"Filtering" and uncheck the boxes that say "Only show...".

What you have there is a preference not a policy and those are by
default not shown in GPE. You can read more on this here:
http://www.gpoguy.com/FAQs/tattoo.htm

cheers,

Florian
--
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JoeD
Fri Jun 20 07:56:02 PDT 2008

Thanks for the reply. Yes it is a preference and not a policy. I do know how
to view it and I have enabled it but they are not applying. When I open a new
tab it does not go to the home page. Is there anything that I missed?

"Florian Frommherz [MVP]" wrote:

> Joe,
>
> JoeD schrieb:
> > CLASS USER
> >
> > CATEGORY "Internet Explorer Tabbed Browsing"
> > KEYNAME "Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing"
> > I then import this ADM intto the user node and nothing happens at all. Any
> > help would be great, it is driving me nuts! :)
>
> Can you see the Category in the left pane in the tree under
> "Administrative Templates? If so, right-click it, select
> "View"-"Filtering" and uncheck the boxes that say "Only show...".
>
> What you have there is a preference not a policy and those are by
> default not shown in GPE. You can read more on this here:
> http://www.gpoguy.com/FAQs/tattoo.htm
>
> cheers,
>
> Florian
> --
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Group Policy.
> eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net.
> blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.
> Use a newsreader! http://www.frickelsoft.net/news.html
>