Stopping pupils downloading in IE

[park_bench]

Is there a handy GPO for this please?

[Norphy]

Yes

There are two ways to do this: You can turn it off completely by going to the very poorly titled User Configuration\Admin Templates\Internet Explorer\Browser Menus\Disable Save This program to disk option. Works on IE5 and above.

If you want a bit more control, you can put websites in zones (Intranet Zone, Internet Zone, Trusted Sites, Restricted sites etc) and decide if you want people to be able to download from sites in those zones. Thats in User Configuration\Admin Templates\Internet Explorer\Internet Control Panel\Security Page. However this only works on IE6 on WinXP SP2 or above.

[Ric_]

You can also specify MIME types or filetypes at your proxy and block them at that point.

[Geoff]

Yep, can do either here with Dansguardian. Then whitelist anything that teachers absolutely need.

[Heebeejeebee]

Yep, block binaries on the student and most likely the staff filtering as well (we do) and allow the ones that are essential through.

HBJB

[sidewinder]

There are two ways to do this: You can turn it off completely by going to the very poorly titled User Configuration\Admin Templates\Internet Explorer\Browser Menus\Disable Save This program to disk option. Works on IE5 and above.

No point starting a new thread so i'll ask here - is there another policy setting to disable the 'Open This File' option? Not near a domain to check

Reason is, getting fed up of staff and students losing their work after emailing themselves a word doc, opening it, and then saving, so it saves in the temp file and then dissapears