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  • Thursday, February 21, 2013 6:43 PM
     
     
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    I know how to set the default home page for IE using GPs.  Is there a way to add a default webpage to existing user defaults?  For example, if a user had yahoo.com set as their default webpage, is it possible to add another default webpage that opens in an additional tab using GPs?  We'd like to set our company internal Sharepoint site as a default homepage, but not remove or alter users existing default pages as well. 

    Thanks!

    Eric

     

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  • Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:02 PM
     
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    Hello,

    You can use Group Policy Preferences Registry and set only the
     "Secondary Start Pages" located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.

    Another way would be to write a script that reads the homepages from registry and adds a new page to the registry.

    As a good start for scripting, please have a look at:

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2007/09/10/how-can-i-assign-multiple-home-pages-to-internet-explorer-7-0.aspx?Redirected=true

    MVP Group Policy - Mythen, Insiderinfos und Troubleshooting zum Thema GPOs: Let's go, use GPO!

    • Marked As Answer by seag33k Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:28 PM
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  • Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:06 PM
     
     
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    Thanks! I will take a look at the first option and see what I can accomplish.
     
  • Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:27 PM
     
     
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    Looks like the first option may do the trick for our needs!
     
  • Friday, February 22, 2013 1:52 PM
     
     
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    Am 21.02.2013 20:02, schrieb Matthias Wolf [MVP]:
    > You can use Group Policy Preferences Registry and set only the
    >  "Secondary Start Pages" located in
    > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
     
    And you can even use Item Level Targeting to
     
    a) maintain previous contents of secondary start pages
    b) add your start page only if it is missing
     
    Sample XML for HKCU\Software\Test:currContent
     
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <Registry bypassErrors="1" uid="{B497FD22-4A1F-4304-839E-4FADE6375FAF}"
    changed="2013-02-22 13:48:33" image="7" status="CurrContent"
    name="CurrContent"
    clsid="{9CD4B2F4-923D-47f5-A062-E897DD1DAD50}"><Properties
    name="CurrContent" value="Present %myVariable%" type="REG_MULTI_SZ"
    key="software\Test" hive="HKEY_CURRENT_USER" default="0"
    displayDecimal="0"
    action="U"><Values><Value>Present</Value><Value>%myVariable%</Value></Values></Properties><Filters><FilterRegistry
    type="MATCHVALUE" key="Softtware\Test" hive="HKEY_CURRENT_USER" lte="0"
    gte="1" max="0.0.0.0" min="0.0.0.0" valueData="Present"
    valueType="REG_MULTI_SZ" valueName="CurrContent" subtype="SUBSTRING"
    not="1" bool="AND"/><FilterRegistry type="GETVALUE" key="Software\Test"
    hive="HKEY_CURRENT_USER" lte="0" gte="1" max="0.0.0.0" min="0.0.0.0"
    valueType="REG_MULTI_SZ" valueName="CurrContent" not="0" bool="AND"
    variableName="MyVariable"/><FilterRunOnce not="0" bool="AND"
    id="{13073B1B-BB2E-4F33-BB8E-3F724169FC96}" hidden="1"/>
    </Filters></Registry>
     
    Basically, we ILT-query for a registry value (type REG_MULTI_SZ, of
    course). If it is does not contain our new page, we feed its current
    content into %myVariable%. Then we feed MyNewHomepage+%myVariable% back
    into our value.
     
    NO THEY ARE NOT EVIL, if you know what you are doing: Good or bad GPOs?
    Wenn meine Antwort hilfreich war, freue ich mich über eine Bewertung! If my answer was helpful, I'm glad about a rating!
     
  • Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:29 PM
     
     
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    All my scripting has been with VBS or Powershell so XML is new to me.  Do you have any links to how this all works?

    Our new goal is to set the homepage or first tab to our internal intranet page.  We looked at using the Disable changing home page settings preference but the wipes out any existing presets.  Would this process allow us to keep the homepage/first tab set to the local intranet site but not overwrite any of the preset tabs users may have configured?

    Thanks!

     
  • Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:41 PM
     
     
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    > All my scripting has been with VBS or Powershell so XML is new to me.
    >  Do you have any links to how this all works?
    >
     
    My scripting even doesn't include powershell - and XML is not scripting,
    it's just an easy way of describing "content" in a tree format. Just
    like the registry is. Or a file system ;-))
    Lots of introductions to xml exist in the net.
     
    > Our new goal is to set the homepage or first tab to our internal
    > intranet page.  We looked at using the Disable changing home page
    > settings preference but the wipes out any existing presets.  Would
    > this process allow us to keep the homepage/first tab set to the local
    > intranet site but not overwrite any of the preset tabs users may have
    > configured?
    >
     
    Can be easily done with group policy preferences "internet settings":
     
    NO THEY ARE NOT EVIL, if you know what you are doing: Good or bad GPOs?
    Wenn meine Antwort hilfreich war, freue ich mich über eine Bewertung! If my answer was helpful, I'm glad about a rating!