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Can you force and RDP sessions Experience Level?

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Remote Desktop has allowed network administrators to remotely manage servers for years.  While studying Remote Desktop settings this past week, we were looking at the possible experience settings below.

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From these settings, you can control how much visual data is set from the target server to your remote session on your computer.  The question was is there a way to set the experience level on the target server and override what the user wants?  Using group policy, you can.  Take a look at the settings below that can be found at Computer Configuration \ Policies \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Remote Desktop Services \ Remote Desktop Session Host \ Remote Session Environment

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To demo the target override, I set the GPO to Enforce Removal of Remote Desktop Wallpaper. Here is a very annoying desktop background that I put on my server while logged in locally.

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Below is the same view while logged in using RDP.

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My RDP settings were set to Allow Desktop, but the GPO enforced on the target was set to Enforce Removal of Remote Desktop Wallpaper.

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Anonymous said…
Hi, I am actually looking into the other direction. All RDP clients have by default the background not shown. But I want to enforce the Background to display regardless of what the RDP client has set. I don't find a way to do this centrally. Is there any way?
October 29, 2013 at 1:29 PM
Jason Yoder, MCT said…
This is a good one. I just spent an hour with the 2012 GPO data and could not find an avenue for success. I'm working on finding a method using GPO Preferences to try and set a registry value to have this flag set by default. Still working on it.
October 29, 2013 at 3:14 PM
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