[THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT Gro up membersh ip.
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- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:55:28 -0400
Bless you!!!
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Mat
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:54 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
http://thethin.net/startbuild.zip
from msg posted earlier ;p
----- Original Message -----
From: <mwjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 6:47 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT Gro
up membersh ip.
>
> If someone posts this on thin, give a shout out where exactly we can we
can
> find it. :)
>
> Waiting with ever growing anticipation........... :)
>
> Michael Willis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of mwjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 12:11 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
> Gro up membersh ip.
>
>
>
> Did you put it on thin?
>
> If not mail me too :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael Willis
> Kamalia
> mwjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Brian Politis
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:55 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
> Gro up membersh ip.
>
>
>
> 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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>
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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.
>
> _________________________________
>
> 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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>
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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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