Greetings!
I am working on a project which involves setting up Terminal Services access to users in our organization. Part of this project involved locking down the desktop to restrict access, for example, only to mapped network drives.
One issue we immediately ran into is the windows explorer search bar in Windows 2008. Through testing, we have discovered that through this search, it is possible to gain access to local drives (C, etc) which have been removed from access with group policies.
After doing some searching online I have not come across much and am just shocked that this search isn't able to be removed or hardened in some way. I've published screenshots at the following URL which detail the issue we are running in to:
Group Policy Screenshots
Does anyone know if it is possible to remove the search function from explorer, or lock it down in such a way as to remove access to local drives?
Thanks in advance!
I am working on a project which involves setting up Terminal Services access to users in our organization. Part of this project involved locking down the desktop to restrict access, for example, only to mapped network drives.
One issue we immediately ran into is the windows explorer search bar in Windows 2008. Through testing, we have discovered that through this search, it is possible to gain access to local drives (C, etc) which have been removed from access with group policies.
After doing some searching online I have not come across much and am just shocked that this search isn't able to be removed or hardened in some way. I've published screenshots at the following URL which detail the issue we are running in to:
Group Policy Screenshots
Does anyone know if it is possible to remove the search function from explorer, or lock it down in such a way as to remove access to local drives?
Thanks in advance!
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