Hi guys, I can't find a reasonable answer to this anywhere: We are running an Active Directory domain here at my work. Our users are "less than responsible" when it comes to the security of our data (aka they won't log off at the end of the day). What I want to know is there something under group policy that will force a member of AD to logout or shutdown at a specific time? I want to be able to control all of this from the server side. I have been investigating this for the last 2 days and the closest answer to what I want is some screen saver from MS. The problem with that is I'd have to configure it everytime a user moves to a new workstation (which happens alot around here) and I don't want to deal with that headache. Is there a way to set a screen saver to be universal for every user that logs onto a PC? If there is then I believe that would also solve my problem. One more thing to add: I tried the Log On hours thing under the AD snap-in and that effectively did nothing. Thanks for the advice in advance! Sean

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314999 Is the exit screen deal. Use domain policy to logoff users at their normal work day ends or a bit later. http://www.ms-mvps.com/server/autol... I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

This question has been asked many times on this site. Doesn't anyone use the Search feature on this site or check the MSKB before asking? Life's more painless for the brainless.

To Jennifer SUMN: Yeah, actually I did search. A lot. Too much for what I get paid. I read every freakin' post that the search spit out and not one answered my question. Go ahead and do the search yourself. (I typed "auto logoff"). Thanks the useless reply. To jefro: Thanks that group policy setting was exactly what I was looking for. I appreciate the time you took to help me out. Thank you.

Here's one: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/... And another: http://www.computing.net/windows200... There are others of course. And there's always: http://www.google.com/search?q=auto... But I guess "reasonable" is relative. I find the possibility of user's data loss quite high though. That's a risk you take by forcing log off. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

Ok As stated in my first post, screen savers were not an option, unless they could be set universally for every user as our agents frequently move to new PCs. The entire point was avoiding the need to re-setup a user everytime time they move. Think of a hospital: They can 10 computers in an area that are universal to all the nurses in that area. Setting up a screen saver everytime is insanse when the IT staff is supporting 10K+ PCs. Continually preaching about data loss is pointless in a very broad range of cases in a corporate setting. Neither of those two posts you just referenced had anything to do with my issue. And yes, there is always google like I didn't think of that one... Please, don't insult my intelligence, especially in a public domain setting. Smart ass comments are not needed when someone is trying to get help. Have I made my point to you yet or do you still feel the need to make yourself look and sound like an idiot? Thank you for the still worthless repsonses. Sean

Hello, I work in a Public Library where we have a 16 computer Public Lab. Our problem was warning people ther 1 hour session time was about to finish and then 5 minutes later automatically log them off. Also, the lab closed at 7:30PM, but at 7:15 and at 7:25 we had anounced that the lab was closing, It was 7:55 and people didn't get off the PCs. Well the LogOn Hours thingy only blocks them from loging on, but if they already logged on it doesn't kick them off. That was getting annoyinig. I found out from Webjunction.org about a free daownload shutdown utility called Poweroff 3.0 that does what I want and can work using scripts. You can create a batch file that calls up Poweroff and do what you want to as many PC's as you want. It evens support WOL (WakeOnLan)too. Here is the URL to Poweroff 3.0: http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/pow... There is also a good article on how Poweroff works on Webjuction that helped me a lot. Here is the URL: http://www.webjunction.org/do/Displ... Who knows, knows and who doesn't know, dosen't know jack! El que sabe, sabe y el que no sabe, no sabe nada!