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Posted by Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] on October 11, 2006, 7:24 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > Hi Lanwench:
>
> Thanks for your response. My reason for not disabling altogether is I
> DO want people to be able to restore a file by COPYING the
> file/folder... I just don't want them to hit the restore button on a
> shared folder and wipe out 2 hours of file changes throughout the
> department. So I want partial functionality, because I'm difficult
> like that.
Ah. Thanks for clarifying....I see what you're trying to do, and it does
sound useful.
>
> To answer your question, I do not use Terminal Services and did not
> apply the hotfix mentioned, but I did use a similar registry tweak to
> get my desired change. When the tweak stopped working, I tried the
> changes mentioned in the TS article without the hotfix in the hope it
> would work.
>
> I acknowledge your point about posting in the Group Policy group, and
> I will do that. I think you're right about it being more appropriate
> there.
>
> Thanks for your reply!
You're welcome - sorry I couldn't fix the problem with my mind. ;-)
>
> Simon
>
>
> Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
>>> Back in the day (2005) I added a home-made Group Policy setting to
>>> disable the Restore button on the Previous Versions tab in Windows
>>> XP SP2. The logic to this is that I want users to be able to copy
>>> an old version of a file back into their folder without the risk of
>>> them accidentally restoring an entire department's directory to an
>>> older state.
>>>
>>> This worked well. In a shared folder, when a user right-clicked and
>>> chose Properties, the Previous Versions tab showed but the Restore
>>> button was ghosted (View and Copy were enabled).
>>>
>>> At some point (I'm not really sure when?), this stopped working. I
>>> have tried playing around with the registry on my local machine but
>>> I just don't seem to be able to disable that button any more. Has
>>> anyone else seen this? It's reeeeally annoying.
>>>
>>> The registry key I have been changing is:
>>> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
>>>
>>> I added a DWORD called NoPreviousVersionsRestore and set the value
>>> to one.
>>>
>>> Since it stopped working, I tried adding that DWORD to the following
>>> location:
>>> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
>>>
>>> Still nothing. So, I tried adding the DWORD NoPreviousVersionsPage
>>> to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer. Still
>>> nothing.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is important to me because we push the self-help concept as
>>> much as possible, and everyone has access to the Restore button.
>>> That scares me.
>>>
>>> Anyone..?
>>>
>>> Reference material:
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888603
>>>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/gp/admtgp.mspx#ESNAC
>>>
>>>
>>> Simon
>>
>> Are you / were you using Terminal Services, and had you calledl MS
>> to get the hotfix described in KB 888603? I haven't heard anything
>> about this (in fact, I didn't even know about it) but you might try
>> posting in m.p.windows.group_policy for more help....
>>
>> That said, if you don't want users to be able to restore, why do you
>> want them to be able to *see* the previous versions? You could
>> uninstall the volume shadow copy client software from the
>> workstations and make this *completely* unavailable to them.
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