The following script runs an application and logs you off when the application closes. Remove user’s folders from the Start MenuĪs you can see the group policy does not do much except clean the desktop and run a login script. Remove Set Program Access and Defaults from Start menu Remove Network Connections from Start Menu Remove My Network Places icon from Start Menu Remove links and access to Windows Update Remove Drag-and-drop context menus on the Start Menu Remove common program groups from Start Menu Remove and prevent access to the Shut Down command Remove All Programs list from the Start menu Remove access to the context menus for the taskbar Prevent changes to Taskbar and Start Menu Settings It also hides the terminal server’s disk drives, leaving the users access only to their own home directory.ĭo not display any custom toolbars in the taskbar What it does is leave a clean UI for users, removing most of the Task Bar and Start Menu. These are the settings for all the users, as copied from GPMC. To facilitate this I set up one policy, All Users, for all of the users connecting to the Terminal Server, and App1, for users getting the first application.

My Terminal Server has users which get only one application but also regular users who get a desktop with a few application. It really helps you out when planning and troubleshooting group policy.

With the benefit of Group Policy and some scripting magic, publishing a single application to users is easy.Īll of you, planning on implementing complex Group Policy scenarios should download GPMC for Microsoft. However, since Windows is designed to deliver a lot of UI components as well as serve multiple applications it requires some work to get this done. Installing a costly computer for this seems a bit unnecessary knowing that Windows Terminal Services have been available for quite some time. Some users require only a single application. Check out, a new resource for Windows Terminal Services and Citrix focusing on all aspects of server based computing and thin client computing.

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