User initiated media player upgrade

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Evidently a user initiated an upgrade of the Windows media player. Due to rights restrictions and I assume the fact that the upgrade was not done from the add/remove programs, the upgrade failed. But it did partially install the new media player, change the file associations. How is it that Terminial server allowed this? And how do we prevent it in the future?
 
Technically, your terminal server allows you to do a ton
of things, but those things need to be restricted. Just
think of your terminal server as just a big workstation
that everyone uses.

If I were you, I would go into the internet options
control panel and disable some functionality there, just
IE's autodownload and autoinstall of missing ActiveX
components. I would then start running Application
Security, called appsec.exe, which was available from the
Windows 2000 Resource Kit.

-M
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Evidently a user initiated an upgrade of the Windows
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media player. Due to rights restrictions and I assume the
fact that the upgrade was not done from the add/remove
programs, the upgrade failed. But it did partially install
the new media player, change the file associations. How is
it that Terminial server allowed this? And how do we
prevent it in the future?
 
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