No previous experience in Windows AD other than last few days so please bear with me.
I have installed some software on a VM which is part of an AD and I loaded Adobe as a domain admin onto the VM. When the domain admin logs in to the VM there is an Adobe icon on the desktop and they can use Adobe.
The issue is when a normal user logs in to the VM they do not have access to Adobe ie. no desktop icon and the rest of thep desktop is locked down because of a group policy being applied.
I managed to track down the setting in Group policy that stops the user getting the Adobe desktop icon -
User Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar -> Remove common programs from Start Menu
if I turn this off then the user can use Adobe. Unfortunately it has to be enabled so a couple of questions -
1) Is this problem at all related to loading software as domain admin ? Is there another account I should be using, note that I cannot give any of the users permissions to load software
2) How do I solve this. From my reading I have an idea it is something to do with copying files from the domain admin profile to the user profile(s) and modifying permissions but I may be completely off base here.
Any pointers, help would be much appreciated.