Deny Service accounts log on rights

Hello,
I am trying to restrict our service accounts form being able to log in through Remote desktop as well as logging on through Ctrl+Alt+Del
I have created a group (For right now just using a single service account) and placed the server accounts in them and also created a GPO with the following settings
I have allowed time for replication but I can still log on through remote desktop connection.  I can also open a console in Vmware and log in by using Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Environment all servers are 2008 R2
Any other settings I might be missing?

> I have created a group (For right now just using a single service
> account) and placed the server accounts in them and also created a GPO
> with the following settings
Where did you link this GPO? It must be linked to an OU in the OU tree
to the server to get applied to the server.
Greetings/Grüße,
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