resetting users IE home page

Is there a simple method to force all of the users IE home pages back to the
"My Company's home page"?

Users have changed their pages to individual choice and the client wants
them all to be forced to view the internal page prior.

Windows SBS 2003 R2, Sharepoint 3

Lanwench
Mon May 05 06:16:07 PDT 2008

rlampky <rlampky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Is there a simple method to force all of the users IE home pages back
> to the "My Company's home page"?
>
> Users have changed their pages to individual choice and the client
> wants them all to be forced to view the internal page prior.
>
> Windows SBS 2003 R2, Sharepoint 3

You can do this via group policy - if you already have a custom one that
does stuff for your users, use that - or create a new one & link it at
MyBusiness\Users (or SBSUsers). Don't modify the built-in GPOs.

It's in User Config \ Windows Settings \ Internet Explorer Maintenance - I
forget which sub-item it's in, but it's pretty easy to find.

NathanGS
Mon May 05 06:49:02 PDT 2008

You can create a Group Policy that will set the Home page to what you
specify, this can be created from your Active Directory on the folder of
users that you want it applied to.

To find the settings open the group policy properties for the folder of
users. then in the Group policy editor, go to User Configuration\Windows
Settings\Internet Explorer Maintenance\URLs. Open the Properties of
Important URLs and in there you can specify the website that you wish the
clients to have.

If that doesn't work you can disable the permissions to change the home page
in the group policy from User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows
Components\Internet Explorer\Internet Control Panel. in the list of options
there is one called "Disable Changing Home Page Settings".

I've used these for a few clients that want fixed home pages and don't want
students/other users changing the home pages.

Hope this helps
Nathan

"rlampky" wrote:

> Is there a simple method to force all of the users IE home pages back to the
> "My Company's home page"?
>
> Users have changed their pages to individual choice and the client wants
> them all to be forced to view the internal page prior.
>
> Windows SBS 2003 R2, Sharepoint 3