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100 Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere Implementing policy-based administration Implementing system policy in Windows 98/Me/NT4 The System Policy Editor in Windows 98/Me/NT4 lets you manage policy settings on these systems. Policy settings in Windows 98/Me can be modified by any user and are not as secure as Group Policy in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP. For more information about the System Policy Editor, see the online documentation for your operating system. Symantec pcAnywhere defines policy settings in an administrative template. After you start the System Policy Editor, you can import the pcAnywhere.adm file. See "Importing the pcAnywhere administrative template" on page 100. Importing the pcAnywhere administrative template Symantec pcAnywhere provides administrative templates for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP and Windows 98/Me/NT4 to support registry-based policy management. The pcAnywhere.adm files define the policy settings for certain components in pcAnywhere. These settings include registry keys and values, the location in which the registry settings will be written, and other descriptive information. Importing the pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP The pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP is located on the pcAnywhere CD in the Tools\Policy folder. You can copy this file to a secure location, and then import it into MMC. Before you import this file, ensure that you have added the Group Policy snap-in to MMC. For more information about how to add the Group Policy snap-in to MMC, see the online documentation for your operating system. To import the pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP 1 On the Windows taskbar, click Start > Run, and then type the following: gpedit.msc 2 In the console window, in the left pane, select the Group Policy object for which you want to set policies. 3 Under the Group Policy object, right-click Administrative Templates, and then click Add/Remove Templates. 4 In the Add/Remove Templates window, click Add.

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Implementing system policy in Windows 98/Me/NT4
The System Policy Editor in Windows 98/Me/NT4 lets you manage policy settings
on these systems. Policy settings in Windows 98/Me can be modified by any user
and are not as secure as Group Policy in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP.
For more information about the System Policy Editor, see the online documentation
for your operating system.
Symantec pcAnywhere defines policy settings in an administrative template. After
you start the System Policy Editor, you can import the pcAnywhere.adm file.
See
“Importing the pcAnywhere administrative template”
on page 100.
Importing the pcAnywhere administrative template
Symantec pcAnywhere provides administrative templates for Windows 2000/2003
Server/XP and Windows 98/Me/NT4 to support registry-based policy management.
The pcAnywhere.adm files define the policy settings for certain components in
pcAnywhere. These settings include registry keys and values, the location in which
the registry settings will be written, and other descriptive information.
Importing the pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003
Server/XP
The pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP is located on the
pcAnywhere CD in the Tools\Policy folder. You can copy this file to a secure
location, and then import it into MMC. Before you import this file, ensure that
you have added the Group Policy snap-in to MMC.
For more information about how to add the Group Policy snap-in to MMC, see the
online documentation for your operating system.
To import the pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP
1
On the Windows taskbar, click
Start > Run
, and then type the following:
gpedit.msc
2
In the console window, in the left pane, select the Group Policy object for
which you want to set policies.
3
Under the Group Policy object, right-click Administrative Templates, and
then click
Add/Remove Templates
.
4
In the Add/Remove Templates window, click
Add
.
Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
Implementing policy-based administration
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