Internet Favorite central location

[zodiaczz]

Hello

I have a client that wants to do the following. He wants a central location to put Internet Favorites which will update all users Favorites in Internet explorer. I found the group policy setting where you can add links, folders etc but he doesnt like that.

He wants this,

1. All users Favorites are redirected to a shared folder on the network
2. He can drag and drop favorites into this folder and everyone will be effected with the favorites he wants.


Ideas on the best way to set this up?

Thanks

 

[mikeeboy]

you need to modify each machine's registry.

Start/Run/Regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellFolders

Look in the right pane for the Favorites value. Note the full path to the Favorites folder. You can use a shared folder for the path. Just make sure the users have read access to the folder.

 

[zodiaczz]

thanks for the link

Would you happen to know if I could do this all in group policy, the altering of this registry key?

 

[mikeeboy]

sure you can, you can create your own gpo template.

Refer to this link

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...er2003/technologies/management/gp/admtgp.mspx

 

[zodiaczz]

Hey thanks

I will check it out



Zod

 

[zodiaczz]

Having problems,

Even if I go into each machine manually and go to that setting, once I change the setting to this

\\computername\sharename

It looks good but it doesnt work, if I go back into the registry it defaults back to the way it was

 

[zodiaczz]

I ended up using a VB script I found.

Seems to work.

Thanks for the info