Allowing users to see their own desktop and All Users desktop

[Guest Gregg Hill]

Hello!

 

I have a Win 2000 terminal server that I locked down a couple of years ago

using the "Locking Down Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Sessions"

document. It is a member server in an SBS 2003 domain, with the GPO being on

the SBS 2003 server and applied to a "Terminal Servers" OU that has only the

TS in it.

 

I had it set so that users could see only the All Users desktop and had

their own Star Menu where they could have icons specific to particular

users. Now I want them to be able to have their own desktop as well as the

All Users desktop because some users want the ability to create shortcuts on

the TS desktop to frequently used files that reside on the SBS server's

Public folder. For the life of me, I cannot find how to do that!

 

In my notes, I have a statement telling me, "Using GPO Editor, under User

Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar Items,

disable "Remove common program groups from Start Menu", thereby making the

All Users desktop available and keeping individual users’ desktops

available." Well, when I do that and then log in as a normal user, all of

the desktop icons that are on the All Users desktop are doubled. There are

two Excel icons, two Word icons, etc. If I enable the GPO setting again, the

doubling goes away.

 

While logged into the TS with LogMeIn to the console, I created a new text

document on the TS in the All Users desktop folder, and on the users TS

session, TWO of them showed up!

 

Another thing I have Googled to death is trying to find a GPO setting to

enable icon auto arrange for all users.

 

Anybody have a clue?

 

Thank you!

 

Gregg Hill

[Guest Gregg Hill]

Re: Allowing users to see their own desktop and All Users desktop

 

Well, I just decided to go back and step through the whole process again,

and I found it.

 

I had to redirect the users' desktops to a shared folder on the SBS server,

and then disable "Remove common program groups from Start Menu" item in the

GPO.

 

I was missing the desktop redirection step.

 

Why it initially doubled the items, I have no idea!

 

Gregg Hill

 

 

 

 

 

"Gregg Hill" <greggmhill at please do not spam me at yahoo dot com> wrote in

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> Hello!

>

> I have a Win 2000 terminal server that I locked down a couple of years ago

> using the "Locking Down Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Sessions"

> document. It is a member server in an SBS 2003 domain, with the GPO being

> on the SBS 2003 server and applied to a "Terminal Servers" OU that has

> only the TS in it.

>

> I had it set so that users could see only the All Users desktop and had

> their own Star Menu where they could have icons specific to particular

> users. Now I want them to be able to have their own desktop as well as the

> All Users desktop because some users want the ability to create shortcuts

> on the TS desktop to frequently used files that reside on the SBS server's

> Public folder. For the life of me, I cannot find how to do that!

>

> In my notes, I have a statement telling me, "Using GPO Editor, under User

> Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar Items,

> disable "Remove common program groups from Start Menu", thereby making the

> All Users desktop available and keeping individual users’ desktops

> available." Well, when I do that and then log in as a normal user, all of

> the desktop icons that are on the All Users desktop are doubled. There are

> two Excel icons, two Word icons, etc. If I enable the GPO setting again,

> the doubling goes away.

>

> While logged into the TS with LogMeIn to the console, I created a new text

> document on the TS in the All Users desktop folder, and on the users TS

> session, TWO of them showed up!

>

> Another thing I have Googled to death is trying to find a GPO setting to

> enable icon auto arrange for all users.

>

> Anybody have a clue?

>

> Thank you!

>

> Gregg Hill

>