
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
