I was browsing my regist...

I was browsing my registry attemting to shut off unnecessary startup processes when I found something interesting. Apparently IAIT always installs the RHIT Group Policies. This makes sense as they use a standard images on all machines. However, this means that if you want to analyze the group policy settings, you can see where they are:

\\ms.rose-hulman.edu\SysVol\ms.rose-hulman.edu\Policies\{9A043A4E-60BE-4663-8654-00D6D2B004FB}\Machine

It is somewhat interesting to note that the startup processes are batch files that call Visual Basic scripts. It is also interesting to note that I was unable to access the VB scripts (they are stored in a $ share on tibia that apparently I do not have rights to access). This leads to a few interesting questions:

1. What do these scripts do? Their names are only vaguely enlightening as to their purposes.
2. Why do they use VB script rather than standard batch command processing?
3. Why am I unable to access the files? Does this mean that they cannot be executed on startup?
4. What are all the other policies under \\ms.rose-hulman.edu\SysVol\ms.rose-hulman.edu\Policies for?
5. Why are \\ms.rose-hulman.edu\SysVol\ms.rose-hulman.edu\scripts and its contents readable to anyone with a valid login?

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