Re: SHaring a MS access frontend amongst all TS users

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Hi,

As with most things there are multiple ways to handle this, here are some:

1. You could create an OU for your TS server and move it into it, then create a GPO with loopback enabled, replace mode. You would set the security so that the GPO would *not* apply to administrators (Add a Deny Apply Group Policy entry to the GPO's DACL for the Administrators group).

With this option the GPO settings would only apply when the users logon to the TS and not when they logon to their normal workstations.

2. Place the copy file command in the usrlogon.cmd script on the TS instead of in a regular user logon script. This only runs when a user logs on to the TS.

3. In the logon script you created, use an IF statement to check the computername and if it does not equal the TS server's name, then skip the copy file step.

Option 1 will give you lots of flexibility and is a common configuration for terminal servers. You can use it to set other restrictions such as limiting start menu items, etc.

Loopback processing of Group Policy

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231287

-TP

Jason Woodbury wrote:
TP, that works perfectly other than now, how do I go about setting up
a seperate login script just for that? I tried via group policy yet
it seems not to run, even after adding it to allowed programs to run.
Doing it via regular profile worked great, until I tested it with a
user and it tries to do the same locally on their machine. I can't
have that because these are outside offices and talk about a slow
connection back and forth. I need to figure out a way to have this
run only on the TS clients and not on their local PC's. Any advice
you might have would be helpful, not a scripter by any means so
please take that into account as well.
.



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