Anyone remember how to turn off the minimize and close buttons at the top of an RDT session? I know there is a way to do it but my google foo is coming up short (I must be asking for the wrong thing) and I can’t remember how to do it atm…and it’s driving me nuts. Any help would be appreciated.
-XT
Assuming you mean RDP as in Remote Desktop Protocol, then you will have a little pin on the left hand side of the bar. Click it once and the bar will go away.
tim
Sorry…yes, I mean Remote Desk Top, and no, the little pin won’t work. That simply hides it. I’m looking for a way to configure RDP so that I can prevent users from closing or minimizing the session. You can do this by going into Options before logon but I need to do it for all the terminals and don’t relish the thought of going to each machine, going into Options and changing the setting to prevent users from being able to use the X to close the session, minimize or Alt+Tab to get out.
I’m guessing by the response either my original OP was confusing or no one knows.
-XT
This should be doable with either a Group Policy, or putting a RDP with the correct settings on a network share and making everyone use that, depending upon what exactly you want to do.
I couldn’t find a way in GP to do it. What I ended up doing is essentially what you suggested there. I set it up the way I wanted for one then saved the .rdp file off…then I propagated that to the users desktops via a VBScript that created a pointer icon to the .rdp file. Kind of a hack way to do it but I was having so many other problems with this install I didn’t want to spend any more time on it than I had to.
Just an FYI for anyone interested…there is something weird when attempting to use legacy roaming profiles (i.e. from XP/2003) on a 2008 terminal server. Basically it looks like Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, has changed the redirection .ini file name…and there is some basic incompatibility between the two. What happens is the users profile directory is changed to a <homedirectory>.V2 folder name…and the old profile parameters (and little things like their redirected My Documents) are no longer accessible. I have no idea at this point how to fix it…I basically did a work around by removing their old style roaming profiles (which I don’t like anyway) and using GP to do folder redirection of My Documents, Desktop, etc etc. That seems to work fine but really didn’t ‘fix’ the problem. Anyway, just a heads up in case someone else is foolish enough to jump into using 2008 in a 2003 domain without researching things first…
-XT