Set up Desktop Publishing Policies 1

[Chambers]

Hi guys, I'm in the process of having our wyze terminals to connect to Citrix. I have it working where they pick up the settings through dhcp and then connect and get to the win2k login screen. I'm logging in with a test user and here is where my problem comes in, basically I see a bunch of apps that I shouldn't see.

Is there anyway to have them log in but ONLY see the desktop items they have access to through the published apps in cmc? And everything else would be transparent? Is that possible??

Or anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[TonyFal]

Typicallt you either publish a desktop OR publish apps to a group. If I read your post correctly you want to do both?

For the desktop you essentially have two choices:

1. Windows policies to lock down the desktop and only allow access to specific applications.
Details of how to do this vary dependent on the presence of AD or not.

2. "Simlify security" by Tricerat.com
this lets you do exactly what you want. you can publish differnet desktops to different users ising a central admin tool.

Again there are many variation of how to modify the Desktop dependant on your environment and how many servers are in it.

Hope this helps.

Tony
tony@ccaheaven.com

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Tony

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[CitrixEngineer]

You can do both, of course - publish a blank desktop, then publish only the apps you want the users to have.

You could also make everything available via Web Interface, publish a blank desktop (ie strip out all icons, shortcuts, etc, and set a policy that only allows the absolute minimum of executables to run), and use IE as the shell instead of Explorer.exe.

You could also use pn.exe as the shell.

Depends whether you want to give your users a virtual PC look and feel, or just a nice, locked down set of applications

Hope this is helpful.