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Adding Trusted Sites to Internet Explorer is a little tricky. For Internet Explorer prior Version 7, it can be done via the Internet Explorer Maintenance Mode and “exporting” the current settings of the administration machine.
It could also be done by an administrative template (ADM) file, as adviced by Mark Heitbrink in this post:
http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.windows.group_policy/msg/5a3084419d4cde95?dmode=source&hl=en
- but it’s not […]

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[ -or: Is there a way to allow “users” to install software via Group Policy?] 
No. There is no way and you can’t do that.
Okay, this wouldn’t be a good blog post if I were not to tell you why.
To install a piece of software on a machine, you don’t need to be Administrator, necessarily. You […]

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[- or: How can I manage Group Policy application using Security Groups?]
This is a question that seems to always come back in Microsoft Group Policy newsgroups. It seems sort of logic that as this whole feature is named Group Policy  people want to define settings according to security groups rather than organize their user- and […]

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