RE: How to enforce Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop via GPO?
- From: v-yanniw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Jenny wu [MSFT]")
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:56:10 GMT
Hi,
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From your description, I understand that you want to enforce remoteassistance group policy settings and remote desktop group policy settings
through GPO. If I am off base, please don't hesitate to let me know.
Since there is an order to apply group policies when domain users and
computers logon to domain, we can configure the remote desktop and remote
assistance policy settings in the domain/OU level. In this way the local
policy settings will not take effect event they are configured.
The Group Policy settings are processed in the following order: Local Group
Policy object -> Site -> Domain -> Organizational units
This order means that the local Group Policy object is processed first, and
Group Policy objects that are linked to the organizational unit of which
the computer or user is a direct member are processed last, which
overwrites the earlier Group Policy objects.
For more detail information to group policy, you can take look at the
following articles. Hope it useful to you!
Order of processing settings
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Serve
rHelp/b74be6d3-ea6c-432f-9240-61e73168021d.mspx
Order of events when starting up and logging on
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Serve
rHelp/b74be6d3-ea6c-432f-9240-61e73168021d.mspx
To enable remote desktop and remote assistance on specific Windows XP
clients, you can refer to the following steps:
I. Locate the OU contains the Windows XP computers, create a group policy
object.
II. Configure the Remote Desktop policy setting:
1. In the group policy object, click to expand Computer Configuration,
click to expand Administrative Templates, click to expand Windows
Components, and then click to expand Terminal Services.
2. Double-click the "Allow users to connect remotely using Terminal
Services" policy.
3. Set the policy to Enable, and then click OK.
III. Configure Offer Remote Assistance policy setting:
1. Locate the node: Computer Configuration\Administrative
Templates\System\Remote Assistance folder
2. Locate and double click item Offer Remote Assistance or Solicited Remote
Assistance to enable settings as you need.
*Note: Remote Assistance uses DCOM. In Windows XP and Windows 2003, the
DCOM entry is located in the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
The String value of the DCOM entry is EnableDCOM = Y. If this value is set
to 'N' or if this value is missing, Remote Assistance will not work.
3. Run "gpupdate /force" on both client workstations and the SBS server to
make the change function.
IV. Moreover, if you want to specify a group of users who can RDP to the
Windows XP workstations, you can follow the steps below:
1. In Active Directory Users and Computers, create a Global group
containing the users.
2. Locate the OU contains the Windows XP computers, open the related Group
policy object.
3. Right-click Restricted Groups (under Computer Configuration\Windows
Settings\Security Settings\Restricted Groups), and then click Add Group.
4. Type "Remote Desktop Users" and click ADD, click OK. (Note: do not click
Browse to browse the group. )
5. Right-click the Remote Desktop Users group, and then click Properties.
6. To the right side of the Members of this Group box, click ADD, and then
click Browse.
7. Locate the group that you created, and then add it. After you do so,
close the group policy.
8. On the domain controller, at a command prompt, type "gpupdate /force",
and then press ENTER to refresh the policy.
Note: The original users in the Remote Desktop Users group on the Windows
XP clients will be overrided.
V. Meanwhile, if your client workstations are using XP OS and have XP SP2
installed, you can configure the Windows Firewall to allow or block the
remote desktop and remote assistance by using Group Policy, please refer to
the following MS article for detailed settings for these policies.
Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft Windows XP with Service
Pack 2
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/a/68a81446-cd73-4a61-8665-8a67781
ac4e8/WF_XPSP2.doc
Note: Please read the part - Windows Firewall: Allow Remote Desktop
exception Enabled only if you use Remote Desktop to connect to Windows XP
with SP2-based computers.?
For more detail information to enable remote assistance policy settings you
can take a look at the following articles:
Overview of Remote Assistance in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300546/EN-US/
Supported connection scenarios for Remote Assistance
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=301529
300692 Description of the Remote Assistance Connection Process
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300692
Hope above information helps! Please let me know if you have further
question on the issue. I am happy to be of assistance to you.
Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
Jenny Wu
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How can I create a GPO that will enable both Remote Assistance and Remote
Desktop while disabling the feature to users so that they cannot turn it
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