Comments on: Best Practice: How to use Group Policy to configure home page settings – Part 1

By: David

David — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:22:20 +0000

After much testing of the three configuration examples, I found that the simplest way to force the primary start page to be our corporate intranet and allow users full access to subsequent entries was to add a preference item using a registry setting: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page. This setting allows me to overwrite the primary field without undoing changes to secondary pages, esp, when the corporate intranet URL changes, as well as keeping the first start page consistent accross all computers.

By: MSAUTech

MSAUTech — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:26:29 +0000

@MSAU and how to set multiple home pages using Group Policy … see http://bit.ly/qvHmgX

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:17:27 +0000

@MSAU and how to set multiple home pages using Group Policy … see http://bit.ly/qvHmgX

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:35:12 +0000

If I’m using IEM(preference) or IEM(mandatory), GPO and GPP for configuring my home page, which one wins ?

I’m asking that because, I need IEM for configuring cookies preference, but, by the way, it seems to overide all the GPP and GPO.
Any ideas ?

thx

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:07:06 +0000

Would the operating also system matter?

By: James

James — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:30:46 +0000

I’ve fix this by manually changing the InternetSettings.xml file in the Preferences folder for the GPO.
I needed to add disabled=”1″ and now things work as I want them to. See code snippet below. FYI

See: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverGP/thread/ef5959e4-7c92-4155-a48b-791f3bb1d5b9

–snip–

By: James

James — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:44:27 +0000

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Is it possible to use a GPO to configure IE 8 on Windows 7 and have the administrator specify a primary home page that can not be changed while still allowing the end users the ability to add additional home pages?
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I have the same question. How do you do this with GPP (I think you say above you can). I set a home page with GPP and it works, folks can add pages, but on next GP refresh, their personal settings are removed.

By: James

James — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:43:03 +0000

I have the same question. When using GPP it overwrites the user’s secondary pages so they are lost. What am I missing?

By: Group Policy Center » Blog Archive » How to use Group Policy to configure home page – Part 3

Wed, 05 May 2010 18:01:16 +0000

[...] to recap in Part 1 I showed you how to configure home page setting using the administrative templates native policy [...]

By: Jonas_Bson

Jonas_Bson — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:12:30 +0000

Hello,

How is part 3 going? We are using Internet Explorer Maintenance mode to configure home page on our 2K8 TS servers, however since we installed IE8 this is not working anymore for new profiles.

In IE7 it worked flawlessly. Have you seen this behaviour before?

Regards
Jonas

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:24:57 +0000

Yep… Here is part 2… http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/03/how-to-use-group-policy-to-configure-home-page-settings-part-2/ still working on part 3…

By: Don

Don — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:12:46 +0000

Are part 2 and 3 still to come?

By: Group Policy Center » Blog Archive » How to use Group Policy to configure home page settings – Part 2

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:01:09 +0000

[...] Group Policy Preferences so if you have you home pages configured using a native Group Policy (see Part 1) then this settings will be overridden. Download as PDF Tags: Group Policy Preferences, Home [...]

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:41:17 +0000

Well… i was going to leave that for part 2… but seeing you asked… You can do it using Group Policy Preferences.

By: Actice Directory Round 2/26/2010 - The Experts Community

Actice Directory Round 2/26/2010 - The Experts Community — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:59:00 +0000

[...] a very useful management tool.In the Group Policy space the folks at the Group Policy Center have posted the first of a multipart series on configuring a user's browser home page using Group Policy. There are [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:28:12 +0000

Is it possible to use a GPO to configure IE 8 on Windows 7 and have the administrator specify a primary home page that can not be changed while still allowing the end users the ability to add additional home pages?

By: Trond E Haavarstein

Trond E Haavarstein — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:59:21 +0000

How to use Group Policy to configure home page settings – Part 1 http://bit.ly/9pqKRa

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:17:55 +0000

RT @grouppolicy_biz: Blog Post: How to use Group Policy to configure home page settings – Part 1 http://bit.ly/9pqKRa

By: GroupPolicy Center

GroupPolicy Center — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:00:31 +0000

Blog Post: How to use Group Policy to configure home page settings – Part 1 http://bit.ly/9pqKRa