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3 Right-click the GPO that you created for the group policy settings and select Edit.
4 In the Group Policy Management Editor, navigate to Computer Configuration > Policies >
Administrative Templates > Windows Components > View RDSH Services > Remote Desktop
Session Host > Device and Resource Redirection.
5 Enable the setting Allow time zone redirection.
Enable Windows Basic Aero-Styled Theme for Applications
If a user has never connected to a desktop on an RDS host, and the user launches an application that is
hosted on the RDS host, the basic Aero-styled theme is not applied to the application even if a GPO setting
is configured to load the Aero-styled theme. To make the Aero-styled theme apply to the application, you
must configure another GPO setting.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the Group Policy Management feature is available on your Active Directory server.
The steps for opening the Group Policy Management Console differ in the Windows 2012, Windows
2008, and Windows 2003 Active Directory versions. See “Create GPOs for View Group Policies,” on
page 223.
Procedure
1 On the Active Directory server, open the Group Policy Management Console.
2 Expand your domain and Group Policy Objects.
3 Right-click the GPO that you created for the group policy settings and select Edit.
4 In the Group Policy Management Editor, navigate to User Configuration > Policies > Administrative
Templates > Control Panel > Personalization.
5 Enable the setting Force a specific visual style file or force Windows classic and set the Path to Visual
Style as %windir%\resources\Themes\Aero\aero.msstyles.
Configure Group Policy to Start Runonce.exe
By default, some applications that rely on the Explorer.exe file may not run in an application session. To
avoid this issue, you must configure a GPO setting to start runonce.exe.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the Group Policy Management feature is available on your Active Directory server.
The steps for opening the Group Policy Management Console differ in the Windows 2012, Windows
2008, and Windows 2003 Active Directory versions. See “Create GPOs for View Group Policies,” on
page 223.
Procedure
1 On the Active Directory server, open the Group Policy Management Console.
2 Expand your domain and Group Policy Objects.
3 Right-click the GPO that you created for the group policy settings and select Edit.
4 In the Group Policy Management Editor, navigate to User Configuration > Policies > Windows
Settings > Scripts (Logon/Logoff).
5 Double-click Logon and click Add.
6 In the Script Name box, type runonce.exe.
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