I just finished setting up a Citrix server that addressed just that. Based on group membership, we can restrict what executable you launch with file security, i.e. you have to be a member of the Office Professional group in order to run Power Point or Publisher. With a simple login script, we add the desktop and start menu shortcuts to apps that they have permissions to run, and remove them if they don't have permissions. For the client side, we are using Thinstation to PXE boot the diskless clients and automatically launch a Citrix desktop session.

Duuuuhhhh....after all that thoughtful diatribe, you'd think I could have gotten a name right.

The author of "Out of the Shadows" is Patrick Carnes.

(not Cairns!) My bad. Amazing how you misspell someone's name once and you remember the wrong spelling...

peace
-adb

...then don't read it. Those of us that know better will "waste" our time on it, and it doesn't harm you in the least. The foes of friends thing only works if you add this account as a friend. If you don't choose to do so, it won't affect you. All of these things we are doing are offered as choices, we are forcing no one to do anything they do not wish to. If someone wishes to read the trolls, all they have to do is change the foe of friend modifier, or not log in. We just know that some trolls have a tendency to use foul language, and offer our readers a way to filter it.

BTW - Unproductivity is not a word (check dictionary.com.) I think the word you were searching for was unproductiveness.