Enable different desktops and start menus?

I am trying to reverse engineer how this was done. Current TS server is
making available different start menu programs based on group memberships.

For example.

app1
app2
app3

User belongs to app1group so all he can see is app1. IF we add him to
app2group, he then sees in his start menu app2 as well as app1. If we remove
him from app1group then all he sees in his start menu is app2. I for the
life of me cannot figure out how this was done on this terminal server. I
looked in the default and all users folders and checked permissions on the
start menu items but it all appears default. I cannot see any group policy
restricting application access via software restriction policies. I do not
see a 3rd party application installed that would do this.

Does anyone know how they accomplished this configuration on a Windows 2003
SP1 Terminal Server?

 

Here's one way to do this (example is about the desktop, but you
can do exactly the same with start menu):

How can I configure different TS desktops, based on user group
membership?


I suspects GPOs anyway. Use gpresult to see which ones apply.

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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=?Utf-8?B?UGF1bA==?= <Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 03
sep 2009:
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> I am trying to reverse engineer how this was done. Current TS
> server is making available different start menu programs based
> on group memberships.
>
> For example.
>
> app1
> app2
> app3
>
> User belongs to app1group so all he can see is app1. IF we add
> him to app2group, he then sees in his start menu app2 as well as
> app1. If we remove him from app1group then all he sees in his
> start menu is app2. I for the life of me cannot figure out how
> this was done on this terminal server. I looked in the default
> and all users folders and checked permissions on the start menu
> items but it all appears default. I cannot see any group policy
> restricting application access via software restriction
> policies. I do not see a 3rd party application installed that
> would do this.
>
> Does anyone know how they accomplished this configuration on a
> Windows 2003 SP1 Terminal Server?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->