automate enabling/disabling of policy settings

[cward1768]

I have a login banner configured through a policy that we'd like to have enabled for one week, every 90 days, instead of having the banner come up on every computer logon.

Is there a way to schedule the enabling and disabling of the settings for the banner text and banner title? I know I can go in the week I want it to run, enable it, then week later, disable it, but I would like to automate it if possible.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Tom Decaluwe]

this is certainly possible using vb scripts. The easiets thing to do would be to create a vbscript that disables the GPO object and a second one to enable the gpo object and then just set them to run using a windows schedual.

seeing you just want to disable the warning message you could have enough with just disabeling the correct part of the GPO but this script will do both computer / user portion.

Sample code for disable:

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Const GUID = "<your gpo's guid>"
Const DOMAIN = "mydomain.mycorp.com"

Dim gpm, gpmDomain, gpmGPO

Set gpm = CreateObject("GPMGMT.GPM")
Set gpmDomain = gpm.GetDomain (DOMAIN, "", 0)
Set gpmGPO = gpmDomain.GetGPO (GUID)
If gpmGPO.IsUserEnabled Then
gpmGPO.SetUserEnabled FALSE
End If
If gpmGPO.IsComputerEnabled Then
gpmGPO.SetComputerEnabled FALSE
End If

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for more info http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles...rticleID=39856

have fun,

Tom Decaluwé