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We have several Terminal Services users on a Windows 2003 terminal server, with a GPO setup to remove all icons from the desktop. &nbsp;This GPO is applying correctly to several of the users, but is not applying to two other users with identical group memberships to the users that it does apply to. &nbsp;We have run the two users it fails for through the GPO Modeling and Results wizards, and found no issues there. &nbsp;If we add the users to the Domain Admins group, their desktop icons go away, but if we remove them from the group again they come back. &nbsp;Any suggestion on what could be causing the GPO to fail to apply correctly are welcome.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Matt
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We have several Terminal Services users on a Windows 2003 terminal server, with a GPO setup to remove all icons from the desktop.  This GPO is applying correctly to several of the users, but is not applying to two other users with identical group memberships to the users that it does apply to.  We have run the two users it fails for through the GPO Modeling and Results wizards, and found no issues there.  If we add the users to the Domain Admins group, their desktop icons go away, but if we remove them from the group again they come back.  Any suggestion on what could be causing the GPO to fail to apply correctly are welcome.

Thanks,
Matt

Desktop Restriction in Terminal Services

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).