Cant access admin features on our Terminal server.

[Glamprecht]

When I am logged into my Win2003 Terminal server I cannot access some admin
features.
Such as "services" or "Computer management".
The typical routes to get to these tools are not available. Such as when I
right click My Computer, there is not an option for "Computer Management" and
when I go to Control Panel and open up administrative tools I only see three
tools that I can access; Cluster Admin and two that deal with Net Framework.

I am a Domain Admin and I administer this server but weather I am logged in
locally or remotely to this server there are areas of the server system that
I cannot easily access.

For now i have been creating custom MMC consoles but this is driving me nuts.

Am i missing something, Going nuts or just Ignorant of TS behavior??

Any ideas?

 

[Cláudio Rodrigues [MVP]]

Re: Cant access admin features on our Terminal server.

Glamprecht wrote:
> When I am logged into my Win2003 Terminal server I cannot access some admin
> features.
> Such as "services" or "Computer management".
> The typical routes to get to these tools are not available. Such as when I
> right click My Computer, there is not an option for "Computer Management" and
> when I go to Control Panel and open up administrative tools I only see three
> tools that I can access; Cluster Admin and two that deal with Net Framework.
>
> I am a Domain Admin and I administer this server but weather I am logged in
> locally or remotely to this server there are areas of the server system that
> I cannot easily access.
>
> For now i have been creating custom MMC consoles but this is driving me nuts.
>
> Am i missing something, Going nuts or just Ignorant of TS behavior??
>
> Any ideas?
>
Are there any group policies being applied to this server? Usually we
create a separate OU and put all TSs there and apply a GP using the
loopback processing mode set to replace. By default this applies to
'Authenticated Users' and therefore, to the admins as well.
Unless you explicitly change the policy not to apply to admins this will
happen.
But again in this case I assume there is a policy being applied somewhere...

--
Cláudio Rodrigues
CEO, TSFactory Inc.

Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Terminal Services
http://www.tsfactory.com

 

[Glamprecht]

Re: Cant access admin features on our Terminal server.



""Cláudio Rodrigues [MVP]"" wrote:

> Glamprecht wrote:
> > When I am logged into my Win2003 Terminal server I cannot access some admin
> > features.
> > Such as "services" or "Computer management".
> > The typical routes to get to these tools are not available. Such as when I
> > right click My Computer, there is not an option for "Computer Management" and
> > when I go to Control Panel and open up administrative tools I only see three
> > tools that I can access; Cluster Admin and two that deal with Net Framework.
> >
> > I am a Domain Admin and I administer this server but weather I am logged in
> > locally or remotely to this server there are areas of the server system that
> > I cannot easily access.
> >
> > For now i have been creating custom MMC consoles but this is driving me nuts.
> >
> > Am i missing something, Going nuts or just Ignorant of TS behavior??
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> Are there any group policies being applied to this server? Usually we
> create a separate OU and put all TSs there and apply a GP using the
> loopback processing mode set to replace. By default this applies to
> 'Authenticated Users' and therefore, to the admins as well.
> Unless you explicitly change the policy not to apply to admins this will
> happen.
> But again in this case I assume there is a policy being applied somewhere...
>
> --
> Cláudio Rodrigues
> CEO, TSFactory Inc.
>
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Server - Terminal Services
> http://www.tsfactory.com
>

There are some policys but i dont see anything that woud modify access to
this stuff. I will look a little closer.
Thanks