Disable Shutdown Button while using Terminal Services

Question

When I remote desktop into the server remotely, the shutdown button shut's down the server.  Granted I have the reason for shutdown turned on, so some less skillful admin's have to fill in the reason and click okay before they really shutdown the server... but
Is it possible to replace the shutdown button with a Log Off button for remote sessions or disable it all together?
Seems like it could be a huge problem if I (or someone logged in as Admin) shutdown the server that's 4 hours away.

Answer 1

Absolutely, we have had this since 2000 (though we do tend to change the name in each new policy editor) :-).
In 2008 you need to use group policy and set the user config -> admin templates -> start menu and taskbar -> remove and prevent access to the shutdown, restart, sleep and hibernate comands = enabled
You probably want to apply this to a machine OU with loopback policy so it only applies to terminal severs.
You may also want to filter it to apply only to the remote desktop users group (this way it only applies when you logged in remotely).
if you still need to shutdwon the remote machine when remotely connected then use ctrl-alt-end to bring up the remote SAS and the shutdown button is there in the bottom right hand corner.
Alex