Greetings and well done on a superb job.
One quick question, is there away for me disable the 'tools' menu, with or without GPO.
Many thanks for your help.
Regards
Byron
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I think a lot of IT admins still assign local admin rights to users, since a lot of software does not work properly otherwise. I have only recently stopped the practice of assigning local Administrator rights to the Domain Users group, and manually sort out the problems it causes with some software packages...
Re: Hide Tools Menu
Mozilla has info on how to modify the menu toolbar including hiding Tools. It's not via group policy but could be useful in some environments (I use this method).
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips
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http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips
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I think you are right especially with regard to small businesses with outsourced IT. I just witnessed an install of a doctor's office where all users were given local admin rights. I guess it makes sense for the IT shops to do this. It means repeat business! Not sure if it was done out of incompetence, greed or just lazyness.ReedMikel wrote:I think a lot of IT admins still assign local admin rights to users, since a lot of software does not work properly otherwise. I have only recently stopped the practice of assigning local Administrator rights to the Domain Users group, and manually sort out the problems it causes with some software packages...
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I doubt it was intentional at all. It's simply a matter of poor design (security) on Microsoft's part, along with all the 3rd party software providers. Like I said, some software packages just do not tolerate running without local admin rights
Getting back to my original post - will we ever be able to prevent downloads in FF using an AD setting (like IE has had all along)? Talk about a security hole
Getting back to my original post - will we ever be able to prevent downloads in FF using an AD setting (like IE has had all along)? Talk about a security hole