ActiveExit supports Group Policies that you can use to selectively exclude or apply specific features of ActiveExit to the users and computers of your network. The policies supported by ActiveExit are provided in the file aexit.adm, installed in the program folder of ActiveExit along with its other files.
To set up the desired restrictions, use the system policy management tool that comes with your version of Windows, such as Group Policy, or System Policy Editor. Please refer to Windows Help and Windows Resource Kit (available from Microsoft) for the instructions on how to use such a tool.
ActiveExit supports the following policies:
Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ ActiveExit
- Licensing information
- Lets you enter your licensing information for ActiveExit. You may find this policy useful if you manage a large number of computers, and you want to save time by propagating the licensing information to each computer through this policy, instead of entering it manually on each computer.
- Settings file
- Lets you designate a specific file with the settings of ActiveExit that should be used on that computer.
- Settings exclusions
- Lets you exclude the specific groups of ActiveExit settings from being applied to all users of the computer by default. If you enable a Do not apply policy for a setting, it will not be applied to the users of the computer, even though such a settings is enabled on that computer. However, if you enable the Do apply policy for that setting for a specific user (see below), then the appropriate setting will be applied to that user.
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User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ ActiveExit
- User Settings
- Lets you specify whether the appropriate groups of ActiveExit settings should or should not be applied to this particular user. If you enable the Do not apply policy for a particular group of setting, they will not be applied to the user, even though they are enabled in the settings of ActiveExit. If you enable the Do apply policy, then the setting will be applied to this user even if you have enabled the Do not apply policy in the Settings exclusion section (see above).
Note that only one of the Do not apply or Do apply policies can be enabled; if you enable both of them, they will cancel each other and the net effect would be the same as if no policy is enabled.
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How the policies are applied by ActiveExit
When determining whether a specific group of settings should be applied when a user logs in to the computer, ActiveExit uses the following information:
- If the Settings file policy is enabled for the computer, ActiveExit checks whether the setting is enabled in that file. If the Settings file policy is not specified, then ActiveExit uses the settings from the file AutoLoad.aexit instead, if such a file if present in its installation folder. If neither the Settings file policy is specified nor the AutoLoad.aexit file is present, then ActiveExit uses the settings stored in the local registry of the computer. If ActiveExit determines that the setting in question is not enabled, then it does not activate the setting for any user of the computer.
- If the setting is enabled in the settings file or in the local computer registry (as described above), then ActiveExit checks whether the Do not apply policy is enabled for this setting in the Settings exclusion section of the policy. If it is not enabled, then it activates the setting for the user, unless the Do not apply policy is enabled for this user in the User settings section. However, if the Do not apply policy is enabled for this setting in the Settings exclusions section, then this setting is not applied to the user, unless the Do apply policy is enabled for this user in the User settings section.
