Disabline screensaver in active directory

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I need to set up a computer in our conference room so that when users
are logged on the screensaver will not come on. In active directory
group policies I can only find screen saver settings for user accounts
and not computers. I need to be able to disable the screen saver for
just this computer for every user, and not disable screensavers for the
users on other computers, but I can't seem to be able to find a way to
do this in group policies. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
 
I need to set up a computer in our conference room so that when users
are logged on the screensaver will not come on. In active directory
group policies I can only find screen saver settings for user accounts
and not computers. I need to be able to disable the screen saver for
just this computer for every user, and not disable screensavers for the
users on other computers, but I can't seem to be able to find a way to
do this in group policies. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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The reason you can't find it in the computer section of group policy is
because screen saver settings are at a per user basis and not machine.
This allows people to log in to the same machine to have different
screen saver settings.

Off hand I don't know what registry values are modified but if you found
out which are involved in disabling the screensaver for a user then you
could write a script that would modify the value upon logon and set it
up as a logon script at the user level in group policy and to make sure
it only runs when they log on to that machine you would have the script
check if the hostname of the machine it is running on is the name of the
conference room machine.

Other than that I personally don't know how to confine the screensaver
from not running for all users on just that machine given how the
screensaver operates.

hope that helps
 
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