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forcing an opening page in IE
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| t-turley 2002-04-13, 7:13 am |
| I don't know if this is the correct forum, but here goes: I'm responsible for maintaining a small LAN of a dozen or so PCs, which are widely spread out through a 5 story building. Several of the PCs are in use 24/7. I work for the Federal government, and our directives require that every time the Intranet or Internet is accessed, a screen displaying the Fed Internet security policy is posted. Even though I've set up a simple page with the internet policy on a central computer, and set that up as the home page in IE on each machine, it is easily bypassed by just opening any HTML document from Explorer.
Is there any script available that will force a certain page to open upon starting IE, no matter what HTML page the user tries to open? I'm well versed in the basics of programming, but my real strength is in networking and tech support. Any help offered will be most appreciated.
Tony Turley | |
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| The way I've generally done this is to set IE to open when they log into their terminal, to the page you want them to see. Of course, they can bypass this on subsequent openings of the program during the day - but this way, at least I know they've seen the policy once a day...
Another option - which has nothing to do with IE, but which is fairly common as part of the logon process in government/corporate contexts - is to produce a dialog box with an OK button people have to click *in order* to logon to their terminal. This is really more normal than the technique above, because people have to do something *actively* to acknowledge that they've read the policy, whereas people can more easily argue that they've never paid attention to that IE home page... |
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