Software Restriction Policy

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Hi All,

We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers to
stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our
company’s policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a message
about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was
wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still
logged to the event log, but the user doesn’t see any message?

Thanks in advance,
Gavin
 
RE: Software Restriction Policy

Answered in microsoft.public.windows.group_policy

"Gavin" wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers to
> stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our
> company’s policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a message
> about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was
> wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still
> logged to the event log, but the user doesn’t see any message?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gavin
 
Re: Software Restriction Policy

What's the answer for the rest of us?

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Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

"Gavin" <Gavin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Answered in microsoft.public.windows.group_policy
>
> "Gavin" wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers
>> to
>> stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our
>> company's policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a
>> message
>> about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was
>> wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still
>> logged to the event log, but the user doesn't see any message?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Gavin
 
Re: Software Restriction Policy

As written in microsoft.public.windows.group_policy:

Gavin,

Gavin wrote:
> We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers to
> stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our
> companies policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a message
> about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was
> wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still
> logged to the event log, but the user doesn’t see any message?

As far as I know, this is built into Windows/Explorer and that function
is not accessibly through the registry or any other setting. So I'm
sorry but you cannot suppress that message.

Apart from that and as a personal side note as this was not part of your
question, I'd like to add: if it's a written policy at your shop that
people don't need to run unwanted applications, go sanction them. What
they do is something management has approved to be "not wanted" and they
are knowingly violenting that policy. They're only making your life
harder - beating human problems with technical restrictions is something
really hard to achieve.

cheers,

Florian
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