Re: /console option doesn't seem to exist with Windows Server 2008
Then you have been relying on Administrators always connecting to
the console session to avoid the application.
Instead, configure a GPO with this starting application, and filter
the security for the GPO to exclude Administrators from it's
effects.
816100 - How To Prevent Domain Group Policies from Applying to
Administrator Accounts and Selected Users in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816100
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=?Utf-8?B?Um9zcw==?= <ross_remov_chappell@epidirect_dot_com> wrote
on 25 sep 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
> Thanks for your reply Jeff.
>
> I haven't done extensive testing to see if there are things that
> cannot be done, so I'll need to keep an eye out. The biggest
> issue so far is that the terminal server is configured to "run
> the following program when the user logs on", but this program
> is meant to be run when end-users log on and not when
> administrators log on.
>
> This wasn't an issue with Windows 2003 because administrators
> would log onto the console. Since this program presents an
> application control panel that, among other things, hides the
> underlying windows desktop it makes remote management of the
> server a little difficult. 