Server 2016 remote desktop taskbar install#
Server 2016 remote desktop taskbar full#

Server 2016 remote desktop taskbar install#

For this policy setting to be available, you will need to download and install the Office 2106 ADMX templates. Located in User Configuration / Policies / Microsoft Outlook 2016 / Account Settings / Exchange / Cached Exchange Mode. Use Cached Exchange Mode for new and existing Outlook profiles.This in effect prevents the user from being able to access anything in the settings options. I typically enable this setting and set the Page Visibility to “showonly:”. This policy setting allows you to define which setting items are visible when a user clicks on the settings option (gear icon) from the Start button. Located in User Configuration / Policies / Administrative Templates / Control Panel. This policy setting goes together with the previous policy item and opens the control panel to the Small icons view which makes it easier for users to find what they are looking for.

Always open All Control Panel Items when opening Control Panel.

I also make the “Mail” item available so users can modify their Outlook profiles which comes in handy when troubleshooting Outlook issues. I commonly make available “Microsoft.DevicesAndPrinters” so that users can make changes to their printers, such as setting a default printer, or changing the default printer preferences. To define the control panel items, you need to use their canonical names. This policy setting requires that you define which control panel items are visible.

Show only specified Control Panel items.

Here are my common GPO settings, in no particular order. Some of these settings apply to only Windows 2016.

Server 2016 remote desktop taskbar full#

This is by no means a comprehensive list if of group policy items if you need your RDS server to be in full lockdown mode. This group of settings helps make it difficult for users to get into administrative applications, improve performance, and generally keep users out of trouble. When setting up a Windows 2016 RDS (Remote Desktop Server), there are a few GPO (Group Policy Object) settings I commonly define for all deployments.