Launch IE with web page

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Tim

Hello,

How can I set something up in AD so that when people log on to their
machines it pops up Internet Explorer with our intranet page?

We are running server 2003 enviroment, with all XP machines.

Thanks,

Tim
 
Hello Tim,

Create a Group policy in AD. In the Internet explorer maintenance you can
configure the default webpage.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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You can put iexplore.exe in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start
Menu\Programs\startup. This, combined with a GPO to set a default
home page, will launch IE upon login and bring the user to the page
deisgnated.
 
Hi Tim,

There are several ways to do this but none of them will apply to policy or
AD that I am aware of. You can do what everyone else has suggested

1. Use IE branding policy to force the homepage to start where you want it
but this does not start IE when a user logs in.
2. Place IE in the Startup folder but you would still need to use policy to
get the homepage that you want to load. Otherwise your users would just get
what they have set the default homepage as.

or

3. Make a reg hack that will add a key for IE in the
HKLM\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Again you would still
need to use the IE branding to force the homepage to always point to the
location that you want.

or

you can create a VBS that will spawn the IE window and the page that you
want it to display and then launch that using the startup folder.
 
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