Use group policy to force certain security groups to log off remote
desktop sessions
I'm having difficulty creating a GPO that will be applied only to certain
computers and security groups. Here is what I would like to do.
I have an OU with several computers in them. I would like to apply a GPO
that causes remote sessions that have been idle for x amount of time
disconnect and for disconnected sessions to log out after y amount of
time. I need this to apply to only users in a specific security group.
I have created the GPO and changed the 2 settings in Computer
Configuration -> Policies => Administrative Templates -> Windows
Components -> Remote Desktop Services -> Remote Desktop Session Host ->
Session Time Limits.
Next I Link the GPO to my target OU and turn on the Enforce check box. I
change the Scope Security Filtering to remove Authenticated Users (because
if I don't it gets applied to everyone) and then I add in my security
group. I also add in the Domain Computers group (because if I don't it
doesn't get applied to anyone)
The problem is that the GPO still gets applied to users that are not part
of the security group. If I change the GPO from Computer Configuration to
User Configuration then the GPO does not get applied to any users at all.
I have also tried moving the security group to a separate OU and linking
the GPO to that OU instead, but that did not work either.
It seems like my configuration should work, but I cannot figure out why
it's applying it to users not within the group. Any help is appreciated!
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