What user environment extensions does the Windows 2000 terminal server component add?

A. A new built-in group has been added in 2000 called ‘TerminalServices Users’ which works in a similar way to the ‘Interactive UsersGroup’ and when a user logs on via Terminal Services they are part of thisgroups.

The Terminal Services Users group SID can then be appliedto files, folders, anything with an ACL and allow only people logged on viaTerminal Services access. You could also test for this group membership duringlogin script etc to perform different actions.

On top of the ‘Remote Control’ tab for users, threeextra tabs are added. As shown in figure 3, ‘Terminal Services Profile’allows an alternative profile and local path to be specified when connecting viaterminal server.

The ‘Environment’ tab allows you to specify a programto automatically run when you login via Terminal Services and options to connectto client drives and printers.

Finally the ‘Sessions’ tab allows times to be setbefore active and idle sessions are disconnected and how long after a session isdisconnect before it is totally closed.

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