How to Restrict Clients Desktop Settings in Server

Introduction

In this article, I'm going to show you how to restrict a client’s desktop settings on server 2019 in a proper and easiest method. Before that, we need to know what desktop restrictions are and their benefits.

What is client desktop restricting?

You can restrict access to entitled published desktop and application pools to specific client computers. To restrict access, you must add the names of the client computers that are allowed to access the published desktops or applications in an Active Directory security group and then entitle this group to a pool.

Benefits of client desktop restricting

• Reduces damage: Restricting user permissions can help limit the damage done if an employee or contractor's account is compromised.
• Protects sensitive information: Limiting access to data can help protect sensitive or confidential information from being accessed by unauthorized users.
• Minimizes errors: Limiting access can help maintain data accuracy by minimizing the opportunity to introduce errors.
• Reduces risk of unauthorized access: Blocking remote access can reduce the risk of unauthorized access or hacking attempts from outside sources.
• Improves privacy: Blocking remote access can make it less likely for personal and sensitive data to be compromised.
• Improves control: Blocking remote access can give you greater control over who can access your computer and when.
• Prevents malicious access: Thin clients are inherently restricted and managed by a server. This architecture prevents any malicious access to sensitive data.

Step 1. On your server dashboard click “tools” and after “group policy management”.

Step 2. Right–click on your domain’s “default domain policy” and after click “edit”.

Step 3. After double clicking “user configuration’s policies”, again double click administrative templates.

Step 4. Double-click on “desktop”.

Step 5. Now you can see all prohibit and restrict settings of the client’s desktop, here I’m going to remove the client’s recycle bin icon from his desktop so for that double click on “remove recycle bin icon from desktop”.

Step 6. Click “enable” after “apply and ok”.

Step 7. After opening your “CMD” update your group policy settings using the “gpupdate /force” command.

Conclusion

In this article, we all clearly understand how to restrict clients’ desktop settings on server 2019 in the proper and easiest method. If there is clarification regarding this topic, feel free to drop comments below.