


I have logged in to computer with one of the test user account. In the Select GPO box, select the GPO and click OK. Right click on the Test OU and click Link an Existing GPO. We will be linking the GPO to this OU instead on linking it to domain. We have got a Test OU which contains some user accounts. Set it to Enabled, and specify the URL for your home page. Right click on the policy setting and click Edit. Find the policy Disable changing home page settings. In the Group Policy Management Editor, go to User Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer. Right click and edit the GPO that you just created. Click New and provide a name of the new GPO. How to set Internet Explorer Home Page via GPOīring up the Group Policy Management console and right click on Group Policy Objects. Once the policy is applied, the users will not have an option to change the home page settings in Internet Explorer. Such policies are enforced in companies where the home page needs to be set to a specific URL (most of the times it’s a company website URL). This GPO will set the home page to the specific URL and this GPO will also prevent users from changing the homepage. So basically we will be creating a group policy object and this GPO will be applied to organizational unit (OU) or a group that consists of users. We will looking at the most simplest and easiest way to do this. There are various ways to set a home page in internet explorer. In this post we will see how to set Internet Explorer home page via GPO.
