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Setting Up Group Policies

Since the release of Skype version 3.0 in 2006, it now supports the use of Group Policies to

deliver and apply desired policy settings and/or configurations to a set of enterprise users

and computers within a Windows Active Directory environment.

The use of Group Policies provides system and network administrators with the most

convenient and reliable way to support centralized management of policy settings for

Skype clients across an enterprise.

Skype policy settings set the behavior of the Skype client for a given set of targeted users

or computers. Skype has been policy-enabled meaning that the behavior of the Skype client

is determined and changes based on registry values indicated in an administrative template

(.adm) file. This way, you can manage Skype’s features and settings through registry-

based policy.

Skype delivers these policy settings through a single Administrative Template file called

Skype-v1.5.adm, which was designed to modify specific keys in the registry as

described in the following section.

Note: You can download Skype-v1.5.adm from the Business section of the Skype

website (http://www.skype.com/security/Skype-v1.5.adm) to configure Skype policies using

Group Policy Editor.

Registry-based policy settings appear and may be configured in the Group Policy Object

Editor, which is under the Administrative Templates node.

The Skype-v1.5.adm file does not actually apply policy settings. Instead, it simply enables

you to see the policy settings in the Group Policy Object Editor. From there, you can create

Group Policy objects (GPOs) that contain the policy settings which you want.

For more information on how to deliver and apply group policies, refer to:

• Open Group Policy as an MMC snap-in

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/ae13960b-3a27-4b19-a866-

ed6e6e7a312d1033.mspx?mfr=true

• Using Administrative Template Files with Registry-Based Group Policy

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/manageme

nt/gp/admtgp.mspx (See "Loading an .Adm File into the Group Policy Snap-in").

Configurable Policies

Following is the list of configurable policies that apply to Skype for Windows (version 3.0

and above):

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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