remote desktop's access-list via GPO?

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joe f. haydn

Hi all. We have tens of XP's and the users need to remotely access those
machines via remote desktop. Those XP's do belong to Active Directory.

I know that, by default, XP's only allow administrators group to do remote
desktop, and that this access list can be added for other users/groups at
Systems Control Panel's "Remote" tab.

However, because we have a large number of machines, I don't want to go over
each computer and configure one by one.

Is there any way I can control those XP's remote desktop access list at the
OU level, may be by the Group Policy? Or any other way?

Appreciate for any input, and any web site links to related information.
thanks
joe
 
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Jeffrey Randow (MVP)

From a Brian Desmond posting:
If you add the user to the Local Group "Remote Desktop Users" (that
is, the group which is on a specific server), the user will have
Remote Desktop Access to only that server. On the other hand, if you
add the user to the Domain Group "Remote Desktop Users", the user will
have Remote Desktop Access to all servers which support it.

HTH

Jeffrey Randow (Windows MVP - Networking & Smart Display)
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