can you remove 'save to desktop' on client machines with SBS 2003?

[pcoxwell]

Just in the last throws of configuring our office machines and we wish to disable users from being able to save items to the desktop or add/remove icons - how do we do this? Is this through GPO? If so, can someone please talk me through it step-by-step? I've been racking my brains for hours!

Also, we have developed our own default user profile and wish to cascade this to all of our client machines so that the default is replaced with our customised default - is there a way to set a GPO to handle this or does this need to be done manually?

Bit of a newbie to SBS 2003 and GPO so an idiots guide is greatly appreciated (Systems Administrator is one of the many hats that I have to wear in the office!)

 

[elmurado]

GPO settings for desktop are under: User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Desktop. You can lock down various things here.

As for the preventing saves to desktop this may be a permission thing--ie remove permission for saving to desktop folder for each user.(Right click a folder and go to security for that folder) The desktop is just a folder in their profile on local machine--unless you set up roaming profiles or something.

 

[markdmac]

To lock down from saving files to the desktop you would want to enable a Mandatory profile rather than a Roaming profile.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark