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terminal server users seeing administrative tools.
can somebody help me out. i just logged into the terminal server with a regular domain user and i was able to browse via the start menu to a whole bunch of applications that I would only like the domain admin account to see. for example admin tools. is there a way to block this ?
thanks.
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Remove the everyone and domain users group from the security tab in
C:\Documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs
Ensure that administrators group has full access
C:\Documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs
Ensure that administrators group has full access
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Looks like everyone . Power users and users have read&execute.
I wouldn't do the security change that madhurjya123 suggested. All users affects all users, and will actually remove access to users to every single menu item in program files. If anything, to stay with that previous suggestion, you can move the Administrative Tools piece out of the "Programs" folder, and put it outside of the start menu folder, and change its NTFS perms to not allow access. Later, you can always add that folder to the actual user start menu to whom you want to give access to these items.
OR
you can potentially go with madhurjya123's suggestion, provided that you have setup the "Default User" account with all the appropriate start menu items. In this case , you can probably remove access to all users from the all users. it's not quite best practice that way, but it'll accomplish what you're trying to do.
for this to work, by the way, you need to start with clean profiles on the server, otherwise, the "Default User" profile will have no effect on users logging in.
OR
you can potentially go with madhurjya123's suggestion, provided that you have setup the "Default User" account with all the appropriate start menu items. In this case , you can probably remove access to all users from the all users. it's not quite best practice that way, but it'll accomplish what you're trying to do.
for this to work, by the way, you need to start with clean profiles on the server, otherwise, the "Default User" profile will have no effect on users logging in.
Correction: You need to remove domain users and everyone from :
C:\Documents and settings\all users\start menu\program\Administrativ e Tools
C:\Documents and settings\all users\start menu\program\Administrativ
*Programs
Your users are likely seeing those from the above location. A couple of things you can do:
1- Control what start menu items show up, either by manually moving items from the All Users start menu directory.
2- Control what shows up with GPO. (I don't believe Administrative Tools is one of the ones that can be controlled via GPO.
3- if your users have domain user privileges on the domain, they would not be able to use administrative tools to do anything harmful on the domain.
4- If you users have user privileges on the local terminal server, they will also not be able to use these admin tools to do anything harmful there either.
So bottom line, you have to look at two things:
What access your users have, and what they can see. To achieve this, you need to control the start menu itself, and what access they through the tools that are in the start menu.
If you have any specific questions about this, let me know, and I'll try to clarify