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Group policy applied to users when on specific systems?

Author
27 Jul 2006 4:06 PM
Smokey Grindle
This is a wierd one... We have our workstations set up with a certain
permission set and its worked fine to this point, now we also have terminal
servers which need to be locked down MUCH more then the workstations, but we
dont want those lockdowns to apply to the normal workstations.. (stuff like
the shutdown item on start and such is hidden in TS, but not in normal
workstations) this is fine and all, the GP's exist, the OUs are created, the
Terminal servers are in a seperate OU with inheritance turned off as to not
inherit lower level GPO's..

the problem comes in this though, the users who are going to use this are
the same users for the workstations... but I cant apply the GP to their
"Employees" OU because it would lock down their workstations also, is there
a way to apply a GP to an OU only if they are logged into a specific
machine? Say apply the TS group policy only if they are logged into a
terminal server? I tried to put the User settings at the TS OU level but
they didnt apply, so I put them at the employees OU and they applied fine to
the Terminal servers but ALSO the workstations... which is not wanted... any
ideas on how to handle this?

Author
27 Jul 2006 4:59 PM
Anthony
Create the policy in the OU of the terminal servers. Under the
ComputerConfiguration, tell the computers to ignore other user policies and
apply this one to users: Computer Configuration/ Administrative Templates/
System/ Group Policy: User Group Policy loopback processing mode, Enabled.
Set the policies you want in the User Configuration part of the same policy.
You can select loopback to replace the user policies from the user's OU, or
to merge with them.
If you are using roaming profiles, make sure the user has a separate
terminal services roaming profile. A policy applied and then removed is not
the same as a policy not applied.
Anthony



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"Smokey Grindle" <nospam@dontspamme.com> wrote in message
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> This is a wierd one... We have our workstations set up with a certain
> permission set and its worked fine to this point, now we also have
> terminal servers which need to be locked down MUCH more then the
> workstations, but we dont want those lockdowns to apply to the normal
> workstations.. (stuff like the shutdown item on start and such is hidden
> in TS, but not in normal workstations) this is fine and all, the GP's
> exist, the OUs are created, the Terminal servers are in a seperate OU with
> inheritance turned off as to not inherit lower level GPO's..
>
> the problem comes in this though, the users who are going to use this are
> the same users for the workstations... but I cant apply the GP to their
> "Employees" OU because it would lock down their workstations also, is
> there a way to apply a GP to an OU only if they are logged into a specific
> machine? Say apply the TS group policy only if they are logged into a
> terminal server? I tried to put the User settings at the TS OU level but
> they didnt apply, so I put them at the employees OU and they applied fine
> to the Terminal servers but ALSO the workstations... which is not
> wanted... any ideas on how to handle this?
>
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Author
27 Jul 2006 5:12 PM
Smokey Grindle
thanks! I'll have a look at this after lunch

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"Anthony" <anthony.spam@spammedout.com> wrote in message
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> Create the policy in the OU of the terminal servers. Under the
> ComputerConfiguration, tell the computers to ignore other user policies
> and apply this one to users: Computer Configuration/ Administrative
> Templates/ System/ Group Policy: User Group Policy loopback processing
> mode, Enabled. Set the policies you want in the User Configuration part of
> the same policy.
> You can select loopback to replace the user policies from the user's OU,
> or to merge with them.
> If you are using roaming profiles, make sure the user has a separate
> terminal services roaming profile. A policy applied and then removed is
> not the same as a policy not applied.
> Anthony
>
>
>
> "Smokey Grindle" <nospam@dontspamme.com> wrote in message
> news:enFy8bZsGHA.1192@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> This is a wierd one... We have our workstations set up with a certain
>> permission set and its worked fine to this point, now we also have
>> terminal servers which need to be locked down MUCH more then the
>> workstations, but we dont want those lockdowns to apply to the normal
>> workstations.. (stuff like the shutdown item on start and such is hidden
>> in TS, but not in normal workstations) this is fine and all, the GP's
>> exist, the OUs are created, the Terminal servers are in a seperate OU
>> with inheritance turned off as to not inherit lower level GPO's..
>>
>> the problem comes in this though, the users who are going to use this are
>> the same users for the workstations... but I cant apply the GP to their
>> "Employees" OU because it would lock down their workstations also, is
>> there a way to apply a GP to an OU only if they are logged into a
>> specific machine? Say apply the TS group policy only if they are logged
>> into a terminal server? I tried to put the User settings at the TS OU
>> level but they didnt apply, so I put them at the employees OU and they
>> applied fine to the Terminal servers but ALSO the workstations... which
>> is not wanted... any ideas on how to handle this?
>>
>
>
Author
27 Jul 2006 7:20 PM
Smokey Grindle
that worked great! thanks!

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"Anthony" <anthony.spam@spammedout.com> wrote in message
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> Create the policy in the OU of the terminal servers. Under the
> ComputerConfiguration, tell the computers to ignore other user policies
> and apply this one to users: Computer Configuration/ Administrative
> Templates/ System/ Group Policy: User Group Policy loopback processing
> mode, Enabled. Set the policies you want in the User Configuration part of
> the same policy.
> You can select loopback to replace the user policies from the user's OU,
> or to merge with them.
> If you are using roaming profiles, make sure the user has a separate
> terminal services roaming profile. A policy applied and then removed is
> not the same as a policy not applied.
> Anthony
>
>
>
> "Smokey Grindle" <nospam@dontspamme.com> wrote in message
> news:enFy8bZsGHA.1192@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> This is a wierd one... We have our workstations set up with a certain
>> permission set and its worked fine to this point, now we also have
>> terminal servers which need to be locked down MUCH more then the
>> workstations, but we dont want those lockdowns to apply to the normal
>> workstations.. (stuff like the shutdown item on start and such is hidden
>> in TS, but not in normal workstations) this is fine and all, the GP's
>> exist, the OUs are created, the Terminal servers are in a seperate OU
>> with inheritance turned off as to not inherit lower level GPO's..
>>
>> the problem comes in this though, the users who are going to use this are
>> the same users for the workstations... but I cant apply the GP to their
>> "Employees" OU because it would lock down their workstations also, is
>> there a way to apply a GP to an OU only if they are logged into a
>> specific machine? Say apply the TS group policy only if they are logged
>> into a terminal server? I tried to put the User settings at the TS OU
>> level but they didnt apply, so I put them at the employees OU and they
>> applied fine to the Terminal servers but ALSO the workstations... which
>> is not wanted... any ideas on how to handle this?
>>
>
>

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