Understanding Terminal Services User Properties
Applies To: Windows Server 2008
You can configure Terminal Services-specific user account properties by using the Local Users and Groups snap-in or the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. The Terminal Services-specific user account properties that you can configure are the following:
Remote Control
Terminal Services Profile
Environment
Sessions
You can also configure many of these Terminal Services-specific properties by using either of the following:
Terminal Services Configuration snap-in
Terminal Services-specific Group Policy settings
You can use Terminal Services Configuration to configure per-connection settings on a terminal server. You can configure the following settings by using Terminal Services Configuration:
Remote Control
Environment
Sessions
Settings configured by using Terminal Services Configuration will take precedence over the user account properties that have been configured in Local Users and Groups or Active Directory Users and Computers.
There are additional per-connection settings that can be configured by using Terminal Services Configuration. For more information about configuring per-connection settings by using Terminal Services Configuration, see the topic "Configuring Terminal Services Connections" in the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Configuration Help.
For information about configuring Terminal Services-specific properties by using Group Policy settings, see Using Group Policy Settings.