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No Remote Desktop Serivces Available in Group Policy?

I have a Windows Server 2008 SP 2 Standard domain controller. Attempting to enable RDP on workstations throughout the network using Group Policy. Everything I see says to go to Computer ...
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windows server 2012 remote desktop session SSL certificate

My windows server 2012 currently seems to have gone on holiday and is ignoring the SSL certificate I have asked it to use for Remote Desktop connections via wmic ...
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Audit when users log on and off servers

We have contractors periodically remoting into our production servers and goodness know what changes that they could potentially make. So What can I use to log when users log on or off a server(s)? ...
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How to give shadow rights to a user who is not a administrator?

We have a public facing Remote Desktop Server that is used to demo our software to clients. We are upgrading to new hardware and new network layout. On our old server I set it so a special group ...
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Enabling SSL for Remote Desktop

Ok so I'm trying to remove a number of my systems from our Nessus scan from having this medium vulnerability. http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=18405 I set the following GPO ...
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How to deny folder redirection for RDP to server

We have a few users running Windows 7 Enterprise. Group Policy does folder redirection for the Desktop and Docs. Users also have to log into a remote server frequently and do not want home folder ...
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Remote Desktop Session Broker + Folder Redirection: How to deal with Administrator accounts?

We are having a bunch of Windows Server 2008 R2 in a Remote Desktop Session Broker farm to allow access for our employees to a company Remote Desktop. Furthermore folder redirection and roaming ...
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Remote Desktop Users via Group Policy Server 2008

I have a group policy setup that turns on remote desktop connections to all clients on the network. The only problem with this, is the local user accounts are not administrative accounts and do not ...
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Setting RDP initial program via local group policy

I'm on Windowws 2008 server and I am trying to set the startup application for Remote Desktop sessions via the Local Group Policy Snap-in. When I log in via RDP it does run my configured application, ...
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Software Install Policy Not Applying to Terminal (Remote Desktop) Services Server

I have a Google Chrome software install group policy object that works perfectly except when logging into the the Terminal (Remote Desktop) Services Server. It's configured under "User Configuration" ...
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Group Policy: Auto Disconnect Idle Remote Desktop Sessions

Several of our admins have a bad habit of closing but not logging off from, their remote desktop sessions to multiple servers. We would like to setup a GPO that will automatically log off RDP sessions ...
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Edit “Remote Desktop Users” through group policy

I have a number of Windows 2003 and 2008 servers on a domain. I want to enable remote Desktop and control the group that has remote desktop rights (NOT terminal services) but I can't figure out how ...
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How do I hide Administrative Tools on Windows Server 2008 R2 using group-policy?

We're locking down our terminal server machine for remote desktop users and can't seem to find how to hide Administrative Tools from the Start Menu for remote desktop users. thank you!
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Group policy reset upon restart?

Is it possible for a group policy to revert back to its original state upon server restart? Our servers are hosted as a Virtual Machine on the rack. We had to restart our server for some reason and ...
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Temporary user-profiles on Windows Server 2008 TS

for a publicly accessible terminal server I have created a user profile which only allows running of a few programs (demonstration of applications). This results in many people connecting to the ...
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Windows 7 - Group Policy - Allow RDP Credentials to be Saved

Im trying to use RDP and save my credentials in a file so I dont have to entire it each time I connect. I remember doing it before and it involved changing a group policy setting. What exactly do I ...
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Enabling remote connections via Group Policy on Windows xp workstations

Is there a way to automatically enable remote desktop connections to my workstations? I've tried enabling the following: Windows Components / Remote Desktop Service / Remote Desktop Session Host ...
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Enabling remote desktop via GPO

I'm administrating a network of XP SP2 machines, and I would like to enable remote desktop for every one of them. How can I get this done using a GPO? Thanks.
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Is it possible to use GPO's to your advantage with RDP over HTTP?

I'll start out by saying that I am an extremely basic "n00b" to Servers. It was a miracle that I could even get some the things to work. Realize that this is a Server 2003 on my home network so ...
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Domain User can RDP into Domain Controller?

Vanilla Windows Server 2008 x64 Standard DC (AD, DNS). I was remoting into my DC to do a bit of work and, thru force of habit, logged into the server using a regular domain account, not a domain ...
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Why does the “Remote Desktop Users” group keep emptying itself? And more weird RDP issues

I'm running a Windows Server 2003 PDC with AD and we have 2 machines that we require everyone to be able to remotely log in to. So I add "Domain Users" to the built in "Remote Desktop Users" account ...
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How do I disable remote printers using group policy

When I configure a new remote desktop connection to connect to servers I often forget to uncheck the option inside of local devices and resources for remote printers. This creates exceptions in the ...