Default Website Address is Not Correct after applying GP

[hause01]

Hello,

I am having an issue with a policy setting that we set about a year ago. We set a policy to change everyone's homepage to our companys website. Since that time, we have changed that address, and thus, I made the change in the policy. Unfortunantly, the policy works half the time. Some users will have the new address, while others will have the old address. I have examined every GPO to make sure I did not put the old address in another policy, and I did not. Any suggestions on how I can "tattoo" that new address to everyone.

[chrisp]

Since you have changed the policy, and it only works half the time, it is possible you have an FRS member in journal wrap. When the old address sticks, is that machine properly applying the policy? If you get the old address and the new address randomly, it is quite possible you have a journal wrap. Basically, one or more machines in journal wrap keep their version of the policies in SYSVOL, and never replicate in changes that have been made.


As far as tattooing, you can probably find a method to push the following key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

On the right hand side is a value called "StartPage"