<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I am setting a mandatory user profile for Remote Desktop users, and I am wandering what is better performance vise - to lock &nbsp;Start Menu stuff with GPO, or to model the User Profile, and then lock changes it via GPO (less GPO rules).<br />
<br />
Thanks.
</div>
</div>


I am setting a mandatory user profile for Remote Desktop users, and I am wandering what is better performance vise - to lock  Start Menu stuff with GPO, or to model the User Profile, and then lock changes it via GPO (less GPO rules).

Thanks.

GPO Start Menu vs manually setting Start Menu

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).