[THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT Gro up membersh ip.
- From: "Brian Politis" <bpolitis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:55:00 -0400
We map all our icons to the desktop as well. A simple script can do
this and link to NT groups. Simply create a group for each application.
Place a shortcut to each application in a central place, and grant the
corresponding group Read access, and no access to everyone else. Then
in the login script use a command like
Erase c:\wtsrv\users\profiles\%username%\desktop\*.lnk /q /s
Copy \\server\desktopshortcuts$\*.lnk
c:\wtsrv\users\profiles\%username%\desktop\*.lnk
This will drop a copy of the appropriate shortcuts into the users
Desktop each time they login, and kills any trash they may have created.
We've been doing this for awhile and it works great.
We actually do the start menu a similar way as well. Using the same
groups and granting permissions to a common start menu set in a profile.
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Boggan
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:15 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
Oh yeah...we for the most part disable start menus. Everything they run
is from a icon on the published desktop. If I had a util like this to
build the desktop for each user it would be GREAT!!!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Macdonald [mailto:Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:29 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
Nice idea. We disable desktop shortcuts here, so it never entered my
mind. Perhaps for v1.1?
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Boggan [mailto:MBoggan@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 September 2002 18:11
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
SUGGESTIONS?? A util just like that but to build a desktop for each
user would be nice.
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Michael Boggan
Network Engineer/Citrix Admin
Virtual Desktop Inc.
Dallas, Texas
Ph: (972) 960-6400
Fax: (972) 960-6445
email: mboggan@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.virtualdesktopinc.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Macdonald [mailto:Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 7:39 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT Group
membersh ip.
A while back somebody on the list mentioned that he (or possibly she)
used scripting to generate a start menu for his (or her) published
desktop sessions based on NT Group memberships. That sounded like such a
good idea to me that I've written a small utility to do the same thing
without the need for any complex scripting. Any NT groups you choose may
have shortcuts associated with them and if a user belongs to multiple
groups they get all the icons associated with all the groups they belong
to. This seems better than system policy based custom menus to me, since
only a single custom folder can apply to a given user with that method.
With this method you could create a number of NT groups and associate a
single icon with each if you wanted, allowing you to precisely specify
the contents of the start menu.
I'm giving it away for free. Mail me off-list if you'd like a copy.
Sorry if anyone sees this as Spam, and further apologies to whoever came
up with the idea in the first place ;-)
Regards
Angus
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