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Don
I'm buying several new laptops for our office which will be running XP Pro
and loaded with Office 2007 and various other office productivity software,
Acrobat, etc. All of these laptops will run standalone and will never
connect to any domain controller type network. I need the machines to be
able to download and install the usual monthly updates from Microsoft, Adobe,
etc., however, at the same time, I'd like the machines to be "locked down"
such that the users cannot install any other new software programs. In other
words, updating existing programs is fine, installing new programs is
prohibited. How can this be done? I was thinking that the users would need
Administrator rights to install the updates....but how could I also at the
same time lock them out from installing new software? I was thinking that I
could possible implement a Policy to control this, but am not sure if this is
the correct way to go about it or even how to do it. All comments, thoughts,
suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance for the input.
and loaded with Office 2007 and various other office productivity software,
Acrobat, etc. All of these laptops will run standalone and will never
connect to any domain controller type network. I need the machines to be
able to download and install the usual monthly updates from Microsoft, Adobe,
etc., however, at the same time, I'd like the machines to be "locked down"
such that the users cannot install any other new software programs. In other
words, updating existing programs is fine, installing new programs is
prohibited. How can this be done? I was thinking that the users would need
Administrator rights to install the updates....but how could I also at the
same time lock them out from installing new software? I was thinking that I
could possible implement a Policy to control this, but am not sure if this is
the correct way to go about it or even how to do it. All comments, thoughts,
suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance for the input.