RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-07 Thread Ken Schaefer
Ken From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2009 6:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO for a single user That's what we do, but different conventions over the years as things increase just gets messy. We have policies for different

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-07 Thread James Rankin
in a manner that would be relatively easy to locate things in. Cheers Ken *From:* tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] *Sent:* Thursday, 6 August 2009 6:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: GPO for a single user That's what we do, but different conventions

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-07 Thread David Lum
+ 1 Good descriptions will go a long way too +1 bazillion! I use the description field and as much of it as possible. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO for a single user +1 on the one GPO, one

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-06 Thread tony patton
Scott mailvor...@gmail.com 05/08/2009 18:14 Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com cc Subject Re: GPO for a single user On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Ken Schaeferk...@adopenstatic.com

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
: GPO for a single user I'd just be happy with a way to organise GPOs and WMI Filters, instead of a big flat messy list of both. It would be nice to have them grouped in some logical fashion. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-06 Thread tony patton
RE: GPO for a single user Most people use a naming convention to have the list sorted, and this tends to ?group? the GPOs. What sorts of things are you imagining for grouping? Cheers Ken From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2009 4:02 PM

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Ken Schaeferk...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Sorry, but I'm failing to see why this particular feature request is one that should go in, but inevitable requests for additional extensions to the functionality should not :-) Because I said so, of course. ;-) To

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-04 Thread Tom Miller
Greedy greedy. You want everything, and from Microsoft. This has been possible within Zenworks for years and I've used it as such. Now that I'm moving to AD I'm adjusting to the methods other folks in the thread suggested. Of course you could go out and get Zenworks, but that would be

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO for a single user Hey list, To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to create a GPO for a particular user account. You can, of course, create a GPO linked to the OU containing that user account, and then set permissions on the GPO

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Hey, Ben I thought about this for a while, and although I initially thought it would be useful, it seems like it would make it harder to find GPOs that are being applied without running RSOP all the time. Either way, it probably couldn't hurt to ask for it... I'm kind of partial to GPO

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
to handle version control, delegation and promotion of GPOs between environments). Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 4 August 2009 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO for a single user On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:52

GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
Hey list, To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to create a GPO for a particular user account. You can, of course, create a GPO linked to the OU containing that user account, and then set permissions on the GPO such that only that user has the Apply Group Policy permission for that GPO.

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Brian Desmond
: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO for a single user Hey list, To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to create a GPO for a particular user account. You can, of course, create a GPO linked to the OU

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Tom Miller
You can do a GPO for a user or group. Remove authenticated users and add the user or group instead to associations within an OU. Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com 8/3/2009 5:26 PM Hey list, To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to create a GPO for a particular user account. You can,

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Gavin Wilby
He wants to do a GP to a person at an account level, not in the OU that they reside. Its not possible. Gavin Wilby. MCSE. MCTS. MCITP. ACSP. MSN: gavst...@hotmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk Tom Miller wrote: You can do a GPO for a user

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Sam Cayze
This can be done already. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO for a single user PSS and your account team can both assist in filing a DCR on your behalf... Thanks

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Sam Cayzesam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: This can be done already. How? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: PSS and your account team can both assist in filing a DCR on your behalf... What's a DCR? :) something Change Request? Will PSS talk to me without a credit card number? I don't want to pay $50 or $250 just to

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Tom Millertmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: You can do a GPO for a user or group.  Remove authenticated users and add the user or group instead to associations within an OU. Read the second sentence of my post. :-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Brian Desmond
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO for a single user On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: PSS and your account team can both assist in filing a DCR on your behalf... What's a DCR? :) something Change Request? Will PSS talk to me without a credit

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: Design Change Request. Ah. Thanks for the tip. :) And no you'd need to pay. I don't know if they'd even let you do it on a pro case - no clue. Okay, thanks anyway. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 15:42, Ben Scottmailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Tom Millertmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: You can do a GPO for a user or group.  Remove authenticated users and add the user or group instead to associations within an OU.  Read the second sentence of

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
Since I'm apparently not explaining this very well, let me emphasize: *** I ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO THIS WITH GPO PERMISSIONS. *** :-) I am/was trying to explain a concept for a better way. On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I put all of my service

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Richard Stovall
As far as I know it's still LSDOU unless something's changed in 2008 which I don't know about. Filtering and ACEs have already been discussed. On a theoretical level, how could Ben's request work? If Group Policy is AD-based, then you're stuck with the SDOU part unless I'm missing something.

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: On a theoretical level, how could Ben's request work?  If Group Policy is AD-based, then you're stuck with the SDOU part unless I'm missing something. Well, for domain-based user accounts, one could posit an attribute

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Kurt Buff
Oh, that's just *way* too logical. MSFT will catch up with that in about 10 years, I'm guessing. On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 16:45, Ben Scottmailvor...@gmail.com wrote:  Since I'm apparently not explaining this very well, let me emphasize: *** I ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO THIS WITH GPO PERMISSIONS.

RE: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, 4 August 2009 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO for a single user It would be cleaner and easier to do if every user object could just have a GPO associated with it directly. This would be analogous to how every machine has a GPO of its own

Re: GPO for a single user

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Ken Schaeferk...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Whilst the particular case might be simple ... I can just see this getting out of hand. So don't do that, then. :) Microsoft tells people no all the time. That can be one more of those. People will want to be able