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how to confiugre limited access citrix presentation server

Asked by: leop1212

How to configure Citrix Presentation 4.5 server for users logged in with full ICA client so that they only have access to a  few applications on the presentation server while full access on their local desktops ( so group policy wont work); user are logging in with domain account

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by: oBdAPosted on 2009-10-28 at 07:09:11ID: 25683372

This *will* work with group policies.
Create a dedicated OU "Terminal Server" or whatever, and move your terminal server(s) into this OU.
Create a GPO "Loopback" and link it to your Terminal Server OU; enable the Loopback mode as described in the article below, and set it to "Replace". Reboot the terminal server(s).
Do NOT configure any policies under "User Configuration" in the Loopback GPO. You can add policies under "Computer Configuration" to this OU, but it's useful to have the Loopback setting in a separate GPO, so that it's immediately clear that these machines are in GPO loopback processing mode.
You will now be able to link additional(!) GPOs with *user* settings to the Terminal Server OU; these GPOs will be processed for every user logging on to a terminal server, even though the user object is not in the TS OU. You can use the Security Filtering of the GPO to prevent the GPO application for administrators.
The regular "Desktop" user policies will not be applied, because the Loopback mode is set to "Replace", so you can start with a "clean slate" when applying the TS policies.

Loopback processing of Group Policy
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231287

 

by: leop1212Posted on 2009-10-30 at 17:23:15ID: 25707696

sorry for delay respond.
solution looks very good I just cant find   policy line  for restrict unrestrict  desktop for all users?

 

by: oBdAPosted on 2009-10-31 at 03:36:12ID: 25709135

In the setup I described above, with GPO Loopback processing enabled for the terminal servers, *User* configuration policies linked the terminal servers OU will *only* be applied when a user logs on to a terminal server, not when he logs on to his local desktop.

 

by: leop1212Posted on 2009-10-31 at 07:36:52ID: 25709949

i am talking about
documents and settings\all users\destkop
I when I enabled the policy I do not see icons from all users\desktop

 

by: oBdAPosted on 2009-11-02 at 11:34:29ID: 25722813

You'll need to be way more clear in the description of your problem.
Your initial question was about how to have different policies applied to a user, based on the computer they're logging on to.
Now you're asking a question about a policy applying, for which it is neither clear where the user is logging on to, nor which policy setting you've enabled where.
In general, you can use either rsop.msc on the local machine or a report run from the GPMC to find out which policies are applying from where.

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