The Windows Group Policy allows you to configure a Group Policy for Windows devices.
In ZENworks Control Center, click the
tab.In the
list, click , then click .or
In the
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page is displayed.Select
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page is displayed.Select
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as the , then click .In the
page fill in the following fields:Policy Name: Provide a name for the policy. The policy name must be different than the name of any other item (group, folder, and so forth) that resides in the same folder. The name you provide displays in ZENworks Control Center.
Folder: Type the name or browse to and select the ZENworks Control Center folder where you want the policy to reside. The default is /policies, but you can create additional folders to organize your policies.
Administrator Notes: Provide a short description of the policy’s content. This description displays in ZENworks Control Center.
Click
to display the Windows Group Policy Settings page, then use the options to specify the settings. Refer to the following table for more information:
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With the Windows Group Policy, you can manage either a Local group or an Active Directory group policy. Before you can configure the Group Policy, you need to install a helper application. Click novell-zenworks-grouppolicyhelper-11.x.x.x.msi, which is a Windows installer package. This installation needs to be done only once. After the helper is installed, clicking launches the helper, which you then use to configure or import a policy. to install theIMPORTANT:After installation, if the Group Policy helper addon does not show up on the browser, then manually enable Group Policy helper on that browser.
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After you have adjusted the policy settings as you prefer, you can select how to apply the settings to the managed device. Computer Configuration Select this option to apply the computer configuration settings to the managed device.
IMPORTANT:During creation of a Group policy, if the value(s) of Security settings on the machine where ZENworks Control Center is launched is modified, then while restoring back the machine settings, the security setting(s) having default state as NOT DEFINED (prior to creation of policy) does not get restored. User Configuration Select this option to apply the user configuration settings to the managed device. NOTE:
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Click
to display the Summary page. Review the information and, if necessary, use the Back button to make changes to the information on the Summary page.(Conditional) Select
, if you want to create the sandbox version of the policy.Click system requirements, enforcement, status, and which group the policy is a member of.
to create the policy now, or select to specify additional information, such as policy assignment,If the login/logoff scripts are configured in a user-associated group policy and the
if necessary, then a relogin is forced and the login scripts run when the user logs into the managed device again. The startup scripts from a device-associated policy run only when the device reboots the next time.The Group policy login scripts do not support the environment variables for users on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2.
The scripts configured through Active Directory group policy are not enforced on the device even though the policy displays success in the ZENworks Adaptive Agent Policies page. For more information see, Section A.14, Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting.
IMPORTANT:
If you want to apply the security settings of the Windows Group policy on Windows XP SP1 or SP2 managed device, ensure that the device has Windows Hotfix KB897327 installed. For more information about how to install the Hotfix, see the Microsoft Support Web site.