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From: Bambilicious on 15 Jan 2007 10:33
Hey all.

I was wondering if there are any GPO plugins to control msn messenger.
The reason for this is that we are about to allow people to use MSN
Messenger, but i would still like some control over it.

We have blocked for file transfer, but i would also like to block for links
in the chat window (this can be done under the security setting)

So i was wondering if there was any GPO Plugin so i could control these
settings using the group policy.
From: Jonathan Kay [MVP] on 15 Jan 2007 19:17
Greetings,

Well a lot of the settings as per passport account, so you can't directly change them which
is part of the reason why there hasn't been any sort of GPOs since Messenger 4.x.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Bambilicious" <Bambilicious(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7AC834C6-8E88-4FA6-8964-15B27C5A42FE(a)microsoft.com...
> Hey all.
>
> I was wondering if there are any GPO plugins to control msn messenger.
> The reason for this is that we are about to allow people to use MSN
> Messenger, but i would still like some control over it.
>
> We have blocked for file transfer, but i would also like to block for links
> in the chat window (this can be done under the security setting)
>
> So i was wondering if there was any GPO Plugin so i could control these
> settings using the group policy.


From: Bambilicious on 16 Jan 2007 07:17
Hey Joanthan.

Sad news i must say, i was hoping there was some way i could control the
issue about weblinks in the chat window.

So what i did was look around in the regkeys for msn and i found
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\
User specific number\UserSecurityFlags

There are a lot of numbers in there, but also 0, do you know if its possible
to overwrite user specific things, with a regkey?


Or do you have any idea what other companies are doing with MSN messenger,
we cant deny that a lot of unwanted stuff is spread using MSN, with
filesharing and links in the chat.

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Well a lot of the settings as per passport account, so you can't directly change them which
> is part of the reason why there hasn't been any sort of GPOs since Messenger 4.x.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
>
> "Bambilicious" <Bambilicious(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7AC834C6-8E88-4FA6-8964-15B27C5A42FE(a)microsoft.com...
> > Hey all.
> >
> > I was wondering if there are any GPO plugins to control msn messenger.
> > The reason for this is that we are about to allow people to use MSN
> > Messenger, but i would still like some control over it.
> >
> > We have blocked for file transfer, but i would also like to block for links
> > in the chat window (this can be done under the security setting)
> >
> > So i was wondering if there was any GPO Plugin so i could control these
> > settings using the group policy.
>
>
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