RE: Security through Microsoft SUS and GPEDIT.MSC

["Nick Besant" <Nick.Besant () ioko com>]

You can do this with the following command;

gpedit.msc /gpcomputer: remotecomputer 

Obviously you need admin rights on remotecomputer to perform this :) 

Nick Besant, ioko
nick.besant () ioko com - http://www.ioko.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hansn () comcast net [mailto:hansn () comcast net] 
> Sent: 25 February 2004 18:56
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Security through Microsoft SUS and GPEDIT.MSC
>
> I have a question pertaining to the gpedit.msc command when 
> used to access the Windows autoupdate settings.  I use this 
> command to edit all my client machine's access to our local 
> sus server and everything works well, although I do have to 
> admit that physically going to each machine and running this 
> command is quite tedious and time consuming.   What I'm 
> looking for is a command that will allow me to access the 
> remote client from MY administrative workstation and run 
> gpedit without disturbing the user on the client machine 
> (which means I would like to keep away from any remote 
> desktop usage).  It seems to me a week
> or so ago I read a response that had a command to run gpedit 
> on remote clients from a local machine and I can't for the 
> life of me remember what that command was.  Would any of you 
> happen to remember what that command was?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Hans

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