Group Policy - Apply to a Specific User or Group

Yes that helps, thanks.

Now I am wondering how to disable a group policy object, or delete one. Something strange has happened where all but 2 settings I changed have gone back to "not configured" status, yet the policy as I had it still seems to be applying to that user profile. I am using Windows 7 Pro. Any ideas? Thanks!

I am trying to use your tutorial to set the "Restrict Internet communications" policy to a large group of local users (150+), but as mentioned above I cannot use my custom group. Can you add more detail to using the Local Security Policy to accomplish this?

I went ahead and used the "non-Administrators" group as a test, but it seems to have no effect.

Thanks for your help.
Andy

Brink said:

Hello Ruud, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It appears that new custom groups are not available to be selected for this. :)

You could create one per specific user of the group, or use Local Security Policy in Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment to add and set for a custom new group.

Brink,

Thank you for the reply. Yes it does stink. Oh well, what can you do.

Yes, I think the non-administrators should work, but it turns out that the "Restrict Internet communications" policy isn't quite restrictive enough for what I'm trying to do. Back to the drawing board.

Thanks again.

Andy

Brink said:

Hello Andy, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Yeah, it stinks, but you can only apply it to specific users and not to a custom group.

Is this custom group of users also members of the administrators group as well? If so, then the "non-Administrators" group would not be applied to them.

hey,

this post was exceptionally helpful to me. many thanks.

please forgive me if this question makes no sense. i am a teacher come tech coordinator at a high school - so this is new to me and i have very little experience.

my first goal was to apply a group policy to a "student user" on the computer in order to limit personalization, access to control panel, etc., which with your help, i've done successfully.

my second goal is to apply these same group policy to all the other 30 laptops in the cart.

i know i can make a copy of the msc and install it on the adminstrators' desktop of a second computer but how do i actually link it to the student user on the second computer so that the msc actually applies?

again, sorry if this makes no sense.

thanks,

chandler