Re: Create session two apps no shell (start menu...)
You can't completely get rid of the shell, but you can modify it so
that it doesn't contain much more than just the Start Menu with the
Logoff and Disconnect options.
The solution is Group Policies. Lock your server down completly and
- most important of all - redirect the users to a custom desktop
folder and custom Start Menu, which you make read-only.
You'll find the settings here:
User Configuration - Windows Settings - Folder Redirection
Application Data
Desktop
My Documents
Start Menu
And since these settings are User Configuration settings, you will
also need to use loopback processing of the GPO:
Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Group
Policy
"User Group Policy loopback processing mode" - "Replace"
Then link this GPO to the OU which contains the Terminal Server.
FYI: you have to do this anyway, also with a single starting
application. It is very easy to get to a normal desktop from within
nearly every starting application. You should not consider
configuring a starting application a security feature.
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting:
http://ts.veranoest.net
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wrote on 12 aug 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
> I have some thin client (Wyse) units with windows XP embeded.
> When they boot they connect to a terminal services session. I
> can set the session to start an application which has been
> great. I now need to have two applications available to the
> users but that means I cennot set a "run app on connection"
> which in turn means they will have acces to the start menu...
>
> I would like to launch two apps with no shell on connection.
>
> Thanks
