Hiding options ?

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Hi All

I have Windows 2000 network with active directory, user roaming profile and
a network drive for users (pointing to a folder on a particular machine).

I want to hide these options for some user irrespect of machine where user
loged in.

* Hide Run
* Hide MyComputer
* Hide Control Pannel
* Hide network neighbour
* Hide C Drive (Local drive of Machine)
* User cannot save his data on (My Documents) of Local Machine only on his
network drive in his profile.
* Hide CD ROM and Floppy.

I remember these (may be some) were possbile in NT 4.0 but I dont know about
2000 how to do this.

Can some one advise how to do this


I will be very thankfull.


Kind Regards
 
Welcome to the wide wonderful world of Group Policy:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/grouppolicy/default.mspx

This portal will give you introductory overviews and technical white papers
(it's geared for 2003, but most of it applies to 2000 as well.) Here's a
white paper that's written specifically for Windows 2000.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/management/grouppolwp.asp

Mark Minasi (www.minasi.com) has also wrote a "mini-book" on Group Policy
administration to accompany his (required reading) Mastering Windows Server
2003. Quite worthwhile.
 
In Windows 2000 you use Active Directory Users and Computers - Group Policy
to control these settings. Most of the ones you are interested in are found
in User Configuration/Administrative Templates. Strongly suggest you create
a Test OU with some test users in order to experiment with this before you
modify any default policies. See:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/evaluate/featfunc/introgp.mspx

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
I tried exactly according to these instruction.

I created OU then a group in the OU and then created policies and then I
put a user to this group

When i log in from a machine with this user I observer two things

1. Logon is very slow and taking too much time to get profile details.
2. What ever I enabled/disabled in policy its not there everything is same
as normal without policy.

I think this problem is related to DNS .

Any suggestion or advise please


Regards
 
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