Screen Saver group policy

Hi Everyone

I need to enable the screen saver timeout and password protect it on a group
of computers.
Obviously there is a policy to do this for users but how can I do it for all
computers in an OU.
I know it is possible to merge a user policy with a computer policy but is
there no simpler cleaner way?

Thanks

Hello Brendon,

As you see yourself this policy is user based NOT computer, so configure
it for the users and you are done. Doesn't matter which machine the user
logs in, she/he will get the policy.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi Everyone
>
> I need to enable the screen saver timeout and password protect it on a
> group
> of computers.
> Obviously there is a policy to do this for users but how can I do it
> for all
> computers in an OU.
> I know it is possible to merge a user policy with a computer policy
> but is
> there no simpler cleaner way?
> Thanks
>

Hi Meinolf

Unfortunately the users are grouped with others users who dont have this
requirement and this isnt something I can change.

If the target users are in an OU with others who do not need the policy then
put the users who need the policy in a group and then change the Security
filtering on the GPO to only apply to users in that group

HTH

Irv

"Brendon B" wrote:

> Hi Meinolf
>
> Unfortunately the users are grouped with others users who dont have this
> requirement and this isnt something I can change.

Brendon,

Brendon B wrote:
> I need to enable the screen saver timeout and password protect it on a group
> of computers.
> Obviously there is a policy to do this for users but how can I do it for all
> computers in an OU.
> I know it is possible to merge a user policy with a computer policy but is
> there no simpler cleaner way?

You can use loopback processing here. Loopback makes computers "apply"
user settings basically:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/window...E97DB1033.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231287

If it's only for a group of users on those machines, you'd have to tweak
a little with permissions:
http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=63

cheers,

Florian
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