{"id":3077,"date":"2018-03-01T06:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2018-03-01T06:37:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T06:37:36","slug":"how-to-set-internet-explorer-homepage-via-gpo-and-allow-users-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/how-to-set-internet-explorer-homepage-via-gpo-and-allow-users-to-change","title":{"rendered":"How to set Internet Explorer HomePage via GPO and allow users to change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a user asked me if they could change their homepage from MSN. I&#8217;d agree with the user as MSN is the worst however the Group Policy we deployed to set the homepage\u00a0<\/p><ol><li>Did not have MSN in there<\/li><li>Disable users from changing the homepage\u00a0<\/li><\/ol><p>We wanted a way to deploy the standard company websites however make sure it wasn&#8217;t locked so the users could add their own!<\/p><p>We set the &#8220;Disable changing home page settings&#8221; and &#8220;Disable changing secondary home page settings&#8221; to Not\u00a0 configured then deployed the Registry Item below<\/p><p>Create 2 Regs Key via Updare<\/p><p>Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main\\Start Page ( Enter Homepage URL )\u00a0<\/p><p>Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main\\Secondary Start Pages ( Enter Secondary URL or more if needed )\u00a0<\/p><p>Choose the below to make sure it only applies once and the user can change it from there:<\/p><p id=\"aJOJzMj\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3078  img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_5a979ea20743e.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_5a979ea20743e.png 395w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_5a979ea20743e-300x276.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a user asked me if they could change their homepage from MSN. I&#8217;d agree with the user as MSN is the worst however the Group Policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2284,547,2285,2286],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-gpo","tag-group-policy","tag-homepage","tag-let-users-set-website"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}