![]() However, there are a few screen issues that annoy the hell out of me. ![]() Link this GPO to the OU on which you need to apply.Recently I have been lucky enough to acquire a Microsoft Surface Book through work. Yellow ones are the Updated registry keys whereas Green ones are the Created registry keys. ![]() Note down the color difference in the icons for registry items. This is how you can see the registry items after created defined using GPP: An example screenshot of create item option is show below:īelow table shows what registry values need to be created for changing the default Mouse cursor to the Windows Black using GPP for domain accounts: Since this is the default cursor scheme you will see in windows 7, all you need to do is update these registry keys instead of creating new items.īelow screenshot shows one of the registry keys as an example:įor registry keys which are not already present, you need to choose create option under Action. The screenshot below shows the registry keys along with their values which are already present for the “Windows Aero (system scheme)” : User configuration > Preferences> Windows Settings> Registry.īefore creating or updating any registry item, you should review the existing registry values that are already present and update those. In the Group Policy Management editor, navigate to Group Policy Management Editor will open.ħ. Once the GPO is shown under the OU, right click on it and click Edit…Ħ. Give it a name which can help you in identifying the reason behind this GPO and click Ok.ĥ. ![]() Right Click and select option, “Create a GPO I this domain, and link it here…”.Ĥ. Open Group Policy Management Console (gpmc.msc) and locate the concerned OU.ģ. It’s best if you create this group under a separate Organizational Unit (OU) so that you can link a GPO to this OU.Ģ. Create a group of users for which you want to change the mouse pointer in a Remote Desktop Services session. These are the steps of how to modify a domain users’ mouse scheme using Group Policy Preferences.ġ. GPP was not available on Windows Server 2003 or earlier operating systems. Additionally, GPP is only available if the domain has at least one Domain Controller running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 as its operating system. Given that GPP is an Active Directory Domain policy, we can do this for Now, it’s fairly easily to change the mouse scheme for a user account when the user is logging onto the computer locally but to assign a particular Mouse pointer scheme only in a Remote Desktop Session (RDP), we’ll need to make use of the Group Policy Preferences (GPP). The primary mouse cursor in this scheme looks like this: The scheme name in Mouse Properties window under control panel is “Windows Black (extra-large) (system scheme)”. What they wanted was a particular Mouse Pointer scheme shown whenever a particular set of users remote to Recently, I had a request from a customer to change the mouse pointer for a set of users, but only within a Remote Desktop Session. In today’s post, I am going discuss an interesting feature of Remote Desktop Services configured for users via Group Policy Preferences. Hello everyone! This is Harshad Joshi from the Performance Team at Microsoft. First published on TECHNET on Jun 15, 2012
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