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  • Tuesday, October 09, 2012 11:41 AM
     
     
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    Wndows 7 64

    Windows 2003 domain

    I have just started into composing Group Policies for my WIN7 clinets in my 2003 domain

    Which setting would prohibit users from installing programs ?

    Thanks

     

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  • Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:26 PM
     
     
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    theres a setting in group policy but more importantly if the user is not a local admin on their machine UAC will prevent the user from installing a program also without admin rights.  Do you use UAC on the computers?
     
  • Tuesday, October 09, 2012 6:14 PM
     
     
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    I dont know if you run into this situation

    we, as admins,  would love to keep our ends users  as either users or power users......BUT THEN application vendors state "our users must have complete  admin privialges to drive C:   "  or somthing as crazy!!!!    they hate troubleshooting problems that may be rooted in privilages

    so yes my users are in the local admin user group   

     
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:54 AM
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    Hi,

    How about using Administer Software Restriction Policies?

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh994606.aspx

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  • Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:25 PM
     
     
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    the technet link states it applies to WIN8and Server 2012....I am not running WIN8 or Server 2012......could you please tell me the setting in Windows7 GP      I need .......... if you do know whcih one it is ?

    it would be greatly appreciated if you could

    thanks

     
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2012 8:10 PM
     
     
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    yep we run into that program here. We just recently were told by a vendor of ours that we have to run the program as admin or it won't work on the end user machine.  Pretty shitty of them if you ask me. Obviously they didn't write the program with win7 and security in mind.

     
  • Thursday, October 11, 2012 6:49 AM
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    The article also applies on Windows 7. You can find the following group policy in Windows 7.

    User Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Software Restriction Policies

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    • Marked As Answer by DanielDeCoursey Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:05 PM
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  • Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:05 PM
     
     
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    thanks Niki