Chapter 14. Policies and Desktop Management

For a Terminal Server administrator, the ability to both manage and properly secure a user's Terminal Server desktop is of great importance. Policies are the tools that you need to do this.

Besides the ability to lock down desktops, policies also can be used for many other purposes, especially the group policy objects available with Windows 2000 and Active Directory. Using group policy objects, an administrator can control such things as event log parameters, account policies, auditing, logon scripts, application settings, and even application installations.

In this chapter, you first learn how to manage users' desktops so that the users have access to what they need, but are prevented from doing things ...

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