enforce screensaver password from server

[selina]

is there a way to enforce password protection with screensaver from a server instead of having to go to each workstation and set it? this way, the users can't diable it later on their own...

 

[office politics]

Controlling screensaver options w/GPO

 

[selina]

we are on win2000 server and workstations are on winxp.
in the link you posted, it said to go to GPO>Computer Configuration \Administrative Templates\Terminal Services.

well, i don't see terminal services. but i do see "Password protect the screen saver" under User Configuration\Administraive Templates\Control Panel\Display.
but with this, it still requires me to go to each individual PC and set it.
i want to knwo if there is a way to do this from a server without going to each pc's...

 

[office politics]

create a gpo and link it to the ou or site or domain. this requires AD.

otherwise, you'll need to figure out the registry changes, create a reg file or vbscript, and run it on login.

or open mmc, add the group policy snapin for each remote machine and configure.

 

[Inaris]

If you don't have AD, you can deploy the GPO settings to all the machine via a file. You only need to get them to reboot to take the settings.

Then file is located at...
%systemroot%\system32\GroupPolicy\User\registry.pol

Copy that file from a configured machine and apply it to all machines, by running a script or manually adding it to the same location. Then have the machines reboot. You can run gpupdate /force if you want to not reboot.

Good luck.

 

[selina]

we have AD. i've never 'linked' gpo to AD before, but i'll try figuring it out. thx!!!