denners31

Hello all, have any of you that use Eclipse.net managed to get the libraryclient.exe to install silently? During a normal install, you have to specify the servername where the data resides. I was hoping to be able to do this by running from command line and specifying the server as part of the install therefore requiring no user interaction. We centrally manage and roll out software and this one is a bit of a pain as you have to remember to visit the PC that this needs installed on and do it manually. I have contacted Microlib who said they don't support it which is a bit ridiculous really. Thanks in advance David

That is actually a fair point. On their desktops, there are actually no exe files, just shortcuts. I just thought because we don't know the names of the exe's, we could just block any exe's that run after a specific path. If they are clever enough, then surely they could just rename one of their game exe's to a known working exe such as winword.exe and it would run because winword.exe is allowed? they don't have access to the C:\ drive direct, only the desktop and that is where they are getting away with running these exe's. So in theory if I could block anything after the desktop folder within their profile, this would stop the exe files. David

Hello all. At our school, we have the running of exe files blocked from running from memory sticks and we also do not allow students to install software. However, clever as these kids are, they have found out that any self contained exe games that just run a game when double clicked and not install, will run perfectly fine if copied to the desktop. We have super mandatory profiles here and any changes they do to the desktop are only temporary. I have managed using software restriction policies to stop the running of exe files from the desktop. I have also managed to stop them from running exe's with a one level folder. However, if the folder is in the next level down, it will run the exe and I can't seem to stop that. this is what I have set to disallowed. C:\users\%username%\destop\*.exe (blocks exe files directly ran from the desktop) - Works fine C:\users\%username%\desktop\*\*.exe (blocks anything within a folder at the first level from running e.g C:\users\bloggsj\desktop\myfolder\myexe.exe) - Works fine However anything in a folder at the next level down is not blocked e.g C:\users\bloggsj\desktop\myfolder\myfolder1\myexe.exe - exe runs Because we don't know what the folder or exe will or can be called, I would like to know if there is a variable that basically looks at C:\users\%username%\desktop\ and will check any paths after this and stop exe. Thanks in advance David

We have an OU called Domain Computers which every PC resides under within other OU's under that. we have a GP called Default Domain Computers Policy assigned to the Domain Computers to which the "Always Wait for the network at computer startup and logon" is applied within administrative templates of the Computer Configuration. We don't have that setting applied to the users. David

Hi all, not sure if any of you have came across this before, however, I will explain. We run a windows XP/Windows 7 Network with Server 2008 DC and 2008 functional level for AD/GP. We use mandatory profiles so that staff and students can roam from PC to PC and see exactly the same things. However, it has been brought to our attention by a student that when logging on to the domain as themselves, they can unplug the CAT5 cable at a certain point at which Windows will use what appears to be a combination of their own profile and the default profile which opens everything up on the desktop and in the start menu. Obviously, this is a security risk and therefore I am wondering if anyone knows if there is a way when there is a sudden loss of network connectivity, the PC simply will not continue to process the logon and returns them to the logon screen or something along those lines. Thanks in advance David