Preventing deletion of desktop icons

How to prevent deleting desktop icons


Log in to client pc with the domain administrators account.

Navigate to the user's profile folder, and open it.

Take ownership of the desktop folder, and de-select the inherit permissions check box.

Remove the user from the permissions access list. Then re-add him. The users permissions now should be read, execute, and and list.

Then copy the shortcuts to desktop of domain users.

Note:

Make sure that you should logon to client pc at least one time to have the user’s profiles like Desktop.

Can be implemented in domain and in work group too.

To enable domain users to login to Server locally and through RDP

To enable domain users to login to Server locally and through RDP

Please see the below image for more details:

Enable shutdown/restart permission for domain users

To enable shutdown/restart permission for domain users.


We need to edit the Group Policy and the GP is located here:
Start  Administrative Tools  Group Policy Management
Under Group Policy Management  Forest  Domain  Domain Name  Domain Controllers  Default Domain Controller Policy
Right Click on Default Domain Controller Policy and took “Edit” so that we will get
“Group Policy Management Editor” In that

User Configuration>Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar
Disable “Remove and prevent access to the Shut Down, Restart, and other options”

To disable auto login network share folders

/ comment is that everytime when we accesses network machines for eg: 192.168.1.2, it automatically opens. The first time, there was a prompt for the username and password. Now it never does that.

cmd-> net use \\IPorDOMAIN /del

Eg: cmd-> net use \\192.168.1.2 /del


Now windows can store login information for network locations and websites as follows:

start-->run--> rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

Windows Server Backup Step-by-Step Guide for Windows Server 2008

Windows Server Backup Step-by-Step Guide for Windows Server 2008 can be viewed from the link from here


Note: You can no longer back up to tape. (However, support of tape storage drivers is still included in Windows Server 2008.) Windows Server Backup supports backing up to external and internal disks, DVDs, and shared folders.


NTbackup earlier in (windows 2003 server) was Veritas, since Veritas is now Symantec, they probably did not come to an agreement. Note, that the entire disk management suite has been rewritten, because the original one was Veritas as well.

Virtual Hard Disk in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2

A Virtual Hard Disk is a created VHD file on your hard drive that acts as a separate hard drive disk in Computer.

Its avaliable only in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2

For the documentation to to Create and Attach a Virtual Hard Disk in Windows 7
Click here

How to Shrink and Extend NTFS Volumes in Windows Vista / 7

For the documentation to Shrink and Extend NTFS Volumes in Windows Vista / 7 Click here