Group Policy – Interactive Logon

Group Policy Scenario – Interactive Logon

Interactive Logon

You are administrator of habib.com domain. You have been asked to implement a group policy to all computers so that users should get an interactive Welcome screen with caution message, while logging into the systems.

Your message Title should be: Welcome

Your message Text should be: Please do not save files on desktop, please move it to my documents

Step-1

Launch Group Policy management console in domain controller. Type GPMC.msc in run command and hit enter.

Step-2

Create a new Group Policy Object, name it Interactive Logon Policy. Right Click it and select Edit.

Step-3

Navigate to Computer Configuration>Windows Settings>Security Settings>Local Policies>Security Options
Here Select Interactive Logon: Message Text
Double click it, check the box “Define this policy setting in the template”
And enter your message in the text area and click OK

Step-4

Similarly, select Interactive Long: Message Title, enable the policy, enter the Title and click OK

Step-5

Group policy has been configured, now you can close the console and run below command to update the policy.
In run command type gupdate /force /boot /boot
Once command is executed, log off from your domain controller system.