NT Desktop as Thin Client

[nels]

We have a large number of unmanaged and varying specs of NT4 Workstations (circa 1900) which I would like to lock down, hide all icons bar a CITRIX PN.

If i bring all these desktops into a AD domain can i accomplish the above without having to physically visit the desktops:

Goals
Remove / Hide all appplication icons except PN
Lock the workstation so the user can only use PN to access apps, and not be able to utilise the currently installed apps.

Thanks
Nels

 

[ascotta]

Hmm, I am not sure. I know you can hide all the icons on a desktop with a GPO. Therfore you could put in their startup the PN. I am not sure if you could stop them having shortcuts, but then again you could use mandatiry profiles.
However how would you get the NT AD thingy out to them ?

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Scott

 

[ascotta]

As another shot, how about blowing NT away and installing dos and running the DOS client ?

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Scott

 

[nels]

Im guessing we'd have to install the AD Extension Client as a first pass. but i am trying to avoid visiting the desktops as its a high resource cost.

Thanks for input so far.