Good Afternoon,
All my users are on a Win7x64 platform with a Win 2008 R2 STD domain controller. I am trying to set google as the default search provider for all our users via group policy.
I have followed the steps in the following article -
http://blogofanitadmin.blogspot.de/2011/05/group-policy-changing-default-search.html
I have gone through the whole article and have also adhered to the comments/feedback at the bottom of the blog. Despite this, after doing a gpupdate /force on my test machine and restarting it the default search provider is still Bing. I really dont want to have to go around to each machine manually and set google as the default search provider.
Just a little further information - the policy is setup with following settings -
User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer
- Add a specific list of search providers to the users search provider list (ENABLED)
- Turn off the Security Settings Check feature (ENABLED)
and
User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Classic Administrative Templates (ADM) > Windows Components > Internet Explorer
- Select search providers to be included in policy based search list (ENABLED)
After applying the policy I run gpupdate /force on the test machine and restart it. I then run RSOP on the test machine and then drill down as follows -
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer
Neither of the settings that I have enabled above are present.
Can anyone tell me where I might be going wrong.
Jeet S