We have a client who has 20+ remote sites. Each site comprises of a single PC (Windows XP Pro), an ADSL router and firewall.
They wanted to lock the PCs down through group policy but since the PCs aren’t part of the domain didn’t want to send an engineer to each site to setup the local group policy
My suggestion was the following
At head office configure the local group policy of a PC. Then copy the following directory on this PC onto every remote PC and reboot (or run gpupdate)
%systemroot%\system32\GroupPolicy
voila!
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Andy Parkes is Technical Director at Coventry based IT support company IBIT Solutions. Formerly, coordinator of AMITPRO and Microsoft Partner Area Lead for 2012-2013. He also isn't a fan of describing himself in the third person.
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