I have been using Frontmotion’s Community Edition Firefox on my local network, and it works great for locking down configuration settings in FF, such as required proxies, etc. It comes along with a set of templates that you can plug into Group Policy Management, firefox.adm (version 1.3, user config only) and mozilla.adm (version 1.7, computer config only). Right click, save link as on the previous links!
For those of you that are system administrators and have to keep up on 3rd party software updates, check out www.calendarofupdates.com. I don’t know what I would do without it. I check it daily, of course.
So there are a number of group policies around Remote Desktop, we know this, under:
Computer/Admin Templates/Windows Components/Terminal Services
But I want to make sure all my Windows 7 machines have the “Remote Desktop Services” and “Remote Desktop Configuration” SERVICES set to automatic and start when the system starts! Try Googling that. You get a lot of results about the former, not the actual system services. These services USED to be called “Terminal Services” and “Terminal Services Configuration”, respectively. Set these services to automatic in the GPO and you’re good to go, they map to the new names in Windows 7. Why, why did they rename these services? Or at least update the .adm files to include the proper service name? It’s beyond me. Here’s where to change:
Computer/Policies/Windows Settings/Security Settings/System Services/Terminal Services
Computer/Policies/Windows Settings/Security Settings/System Services/Terminal Services Configuration