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Formatting “Message text for users attempting to log on”

If you have ever tried defining the Security Options policy setting called: "Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on", you may have had some difficulties formatting the message the way you wanted it. This blog is about "how to" workaround a minor bug in the GPEDIT tool…

The issue:

First things first - the Group Policy setting is located here:

"Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\"

The value is a Multi-String registry value that allows you to make multiple lines in the message. The message pops up right after a users hits Ctrl+Alt+Del as a general warning to the user before actually logging on. But, unfortunately the formatting isn’t as perfect as it could be.

What happens is, that carriage returns are lost after formatting this "pre-logon message" with GPEDIT, imagine you would want a message like this (see Figure 3):

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I don’t know why this should be so hard? Jump next line please…

Let’s do a comma, and continue the line…
Line number

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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Starter GPO’s - what are they?

With Windows Server 2008 (Codename Longhorn) you will notice a new container called “Starter GPOs” inside the GPMC (version 2.0 - BTW this version will also be available as a separate download for Windows Vista with SP1).

This new container can hold what I would call “templates” for creating new GPO’s - with the limitation that only Administrative Template settings are available. When creating new GPO’s you can choose to use a Starter GPO as the source (read: template) - which makes it easy and fast to create multiple GPO’s with the same baseline configuration.

But, the very cool thing is that you can now “export” those GPO templates (Starter GPO’s) to a Cabinet file (.CAB) and then import into another environment - completely independent of the source domain/forest! So, you can create the PERFECT Starter GPO and then bring it around the world, share it on the Internet (if legal?), deploy it on all systems you can get a hold on etc. etc.

When you ‘enable’ Starter GPO’s in the domain for the first time, a folder called “StarterGPOs” is created inside the SYSVOL folder (\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\StarterGPOs) - this is where all the “magic” is done… For

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on October 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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