Disabling Local machine trackpad in RDP session

Hello!
I'm having an issue with users in my network.  Haha!
I've got some users who prefer an external mouse to their laptop's trackpad, which I have no problem with.  However, many of these users have issues with typing while not touching the trackpad.
I've been IT Director since the beginning of July and have received several complaints of "My mouse keeps jumping around like crazy."
So, being the nice guy that I am, I disabled the trackpad on the local machines for these users.  Unfortunately, this setting hasn't translated to their RDP session into the terminal server (Server 2012 Standard) that hosts our EMR software (where most
users actually do most of their work).
Long story short, my question is how can I disable the local machine's trackpad in an RDP session to a terminal server for specific users?
I thought maybe a Group Policy item could fix the issue, but not all users in the group use an alternative to the trackpad and not all of the users that are having these issues are in the same group.
Also, all laptops are Dells, but different models, so possibly different trackpads/drivers.
I've done quite a bit of searching and stumbled onto other forums, but found nothing to even point me in the right direction, so any help/advice is greatly appreciated!

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Which version of server\client OS using in your environment?
From your description it seems that you are facing issue with specific users, so for that you need to disable the track pad manually and GPO can’t apply over that. In addition, I want to say that please use client RDP 8.1 for better feature. 
If you are using server 2008 R2, then please try to update KB 2579381 and check the result.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
TechNet Community Support

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