Hi! Is it possible to open a windows 7 computer local policy on a remote computer to change User Rights Assignment settings? Thanks.

Hi, Do you mean use the Remote Desktop Connection on your Windows 7? If you are the administrator or have the administrative privileage of that compter, then you can use the gpedit.msc to change the user rights assignment. Regards, MiyaThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. | Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I think they may mean to directly remotely the local group policy settings on a computer from a different one without using remote desktop and actually accessing it directly from that computer. So much like how in computer management, you can use the connect to another computer option, to remotely manage a different computer, but you can do this from your desktop, and do not need to remote desktop and interrupt the user on the target computer. I would also like to know if this is possible, with just a computer name on your network, if you can easily access the information in the local group policy from a different computer, that you would normally only be able to access when running gpedit.msc locally on that computer.

Try the following and see if it suffices: Start --> Run --> mmc File --> Add/Remove Snap-in Under the Standalone tab, click Add... Choose Group Policy Object Editor In the following wizard, click the Browse button Click the "Computers" tab, select the Another computer radial button, and type the name or Browse to the remote computer Click OK, then Finish, then Close, and finally OK You should now see the Group Policy in the left pane for the remote computer

You are not able to view the Security Policies however. Kathkathleen barry

You can do it from a command line: gpedit.msc /gpcomputer:"computername" I had to put the computername in quotes to make it work.

Try this....From Windows 7, Start > type mmc in the search > shift+right click mmc > run as different user> then follow #'s 2-8. Should work.