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#154168 20-Oct-2014 11:55

Brain not working today (nothing new there), so my Google-fu is not helping........

AD environment, Windows 7

Been asked to setup a "welcome" page in IE for new staff to see when they fire up IE the first time, but after the 1st viewing, change it back to a default home page (internal company intranet).

I know I can set start pages via GPO etc but how do I change it back to the intranet page after the first viewing ?

TIA

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#1158338 20-Oct-2014 12:02

If you get desperate and login scripts are in place, you could do an 'IF EXIST' to check for the presence of a simple text file, and if it does not exist, start IE with that page.

Something like:
IF NOT EXIST %userprofile%\newuserpage.txt iexplore \\servername\sharename\welcomenewusers.html
echo Hello > %userprofile%\newuserpage.txt

Probably choose a better location for the file... somewhere buried in their AppData folder structure.

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#1158536 20-Oct-2014 15:07

Can you use the
DisableFirstRunCustomize = 1 (show the First Home Page or Start Page)
http://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/ie/firstrun.htm

Then set the First Home Page string?

I don't know if they are still used or not.

If the First Home Page value doesn't work these days, there might be a 'RunOnceComplete' or 'RunOnceHasShown' value which gets set in Disable the First Run Customize Page in Internet Explorer

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

which you could use Group Policy Preference targeting to change the homepage back to intranet if run once has been shown

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#1158678 20-Oct-2014 17:34

Are you talking about the welcome settings page configured in the IEAK?

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