Locking Down Terminal Server

[MasterPhil]

Bloody Marvelous! There I was, running through Microsoft's white paper on locking down Terminal Server, closed gpedit without thinking and now I can't get back it as I have removed the run command from the menu as it never occurred to me that the user configuration would affect the system administrator.

Is there a way out of this other than a complete re-install?

 

[MasterPhil]

Well, bend down and thank your lucky stars that I had an mmc shortcut so I could open the gpedit that way. However, I still have the problem that I want to lock down the server but for the lock down not to be applied to administrator. I have tried reading a Microsoft paper on this but it is less than clear as to what it is asking me to do.

This is what the paper says:-

Log on as administrator,
click start/control panel/folder options/show hidden files or folders
Copy the registry.pol file to a backup location
open gpedit again and enable the features than were disabled in the original .pol file.
Close gpedit and copy the backup file back into the same place.

The changes no longer apply to the administrator.

WHY? HOW? WHAT? This makes no sense, I am going to try it but even if it does work I don't understand how?

Can anyone clarify this for me?

Phil