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4. Click the Settings tab, and review the available options. Click to clear the Grant the user
exclusive rights to Documents check box. Click Redirect the folder back to the local user-
profile location when policy is removed , click OK , and then click Yes .
5. In GPMC, link TestOUGPO to TestOU .
6. Folder redirection, although applied to users, sometimes requires a computer restart when
it's first applied. Restart your Vista computer and log on to the domain from your Vista com-
puter as testuser1 .
7. Click Start , Documents . Create a text file in Documents named TestRedirect .
8. Click Start , type \\serverXX\Shared in the Search text box, and press Enter . You should see
a folder named testuser1 in the share. Double-click the testuser1 folder and double-click the
Documents folder. The TestRedirect file you created in your Documents folder should be
there. Log off your Vista computer. (If the Documents folder is not being redirected, try log-
ging off and logging back on again. Sometimes you need to log on twice before the policy
takes effect. If this method doesn't work, run Gpupdate.exe.)
9. On your server, open GPMC, if necessary. Right-click TestOUGPO and click Edit . Under
the Folder Redirection node in GPME, right-click Documents and click Properties . Click
the Target tab, if necessary, and disable folder redirection by clicking Not configured in the
Setting list box. Click OK , and then close any open windows.

7

The Internet Explorer Maintenance Subnode Some companies want to customize
their users' Internet Explorer browser with the company name or logo, or they might want to
force a user's home page to be the corporate Web site. These settings and a host of others can be
configured with the Internet Explorer Maintenance policies.

Activity 7-20: Creating an Internet Explorer Policy

Time Required: 10 minutes
Objective: Set a browser title and home page for IE browsers.
Description: You want all your users to have certain IE browser settings, such as the home page
and a title bar reflecting the company name, so you configure the Internet Explorer Maintenance
policies.

This activity requires access to the Internet to test the policy.

1. Log on to your server as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Open GPMC. Click the Group Policy Objects folder, and create a GPO in this folder named
IEGPO .
3. Right-click IEGPO and click Edit . In GPME, expand User Configuration , Policies , Windows
Settings , and Internet Explorer Maintenance . Click to select the Internet Explorer Maintenance
node in the left pane.
4. In the right pane, double-click Browser User Interface . In the right pane, double-click
Browser Title . In the Browser Title dialog box, click the Customize Title Bars check box. In
the Title Bar Text text box, type CoolGadgets.com , and then click OK .
5. Click URLs in the left pane of GPME, and then double-click Important URLs in the right
pane. In the Important URLs dialog box, click the Customize Home page URL check box,
type http://coolgadgets.tomsho.com in the Home page URL text box, and then click OK .
Close GPME.
6. In GPMC, link IEGPO to your domain.
7. Log on to the domain from your Vista computer as testuser1 .