Customising 'Cannot disdplay web page' page

Banzai_Joe · 15 Jul 2008 at 12:55

Guys,

I've been charged with the task of locking down Internet access for our active directory users (win server 2003). I've managed to do this via group policy by making up a fake proxy server connection and then denying users the ability to change the settings.
This seem to have the desired affect for users who log onto the domain AND when working via terminal services, whilst maintaining their network connection.

What i'd now like to do is customise the page that appears when they try to connect. You know the one? 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage'
I want to modify it with our own logo and text.
Is this possible? If so, i'd be very grateful if you let me know how.

Many thanks guys

platypus · 15 Jul 2008 at 15:27

Do you use IIS?

More coming...

Banzai_Joe · 15 Jul 2008 at 15:32

no, don't think so.

platypus · 15 Jul 2008 at 15:35

Ehm, well if you're using Apache you can point to custom error files in the conf.

blastman · 15 Jul 2008 at 16:59

I thought that there is a registry entry that points to the page in question, located in the system32 folder.

If this is true, you could just change the value to point to a HTML page you've created.

I'll have a dig as see if i can find the entry I'm on about...

EDIT;

Nope, I'm talking crap. It doesn't exist. Sorry for wasting everybody's time, refunds avaiable....

shine · 15 Jul 2008 at 21:50

You might be able to do this through the custom browser tools provided in the Internet Explorer Administration Kit:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/bb219517.aspx

Not tried this myself, but worth a go.

Caged · 15 Jul 2008 at 23:06

Don't do this client-side. Set up a real proxy at the address you've specified, and then set the proxy to disallow access to everything, with your own custom error page.