Yes you can do it via group policies. The reason that I don't use group policies is so that I can take one script that does everything that group policy could do and use it at different clients and all I have to do is modify txt files to add the printers etc. It actually saves time! Secondly group policy actually increases the login time over using kixtart scripts ! kixtart scripts are faster than gpo's.
I will see if I can create those 8 policies using another key where the user has permission.
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