Hello everyone,

This is more of a 2003 server related issue then XP, so it'll go in here. I find that users are not logging of the clients in my network. It's quite annoying, since they don't even bother to lock the computer up. Is there anyway to do a autolog off without loosing any data like unsaved word documents? Actually, I think thats the only thing that would be lost if they were automatically logged off, the word documents. All clients have 2003 Office installed on them. Any ideas?

Thanks,

lieb39

I have a similar question... I have users who don't log off my server who are using terminal services. Would love for it to auto-logoff after a certain time of inactivity.

jafo

As a sysadmin, I say screw them. You can log them off, yes, but it's their responsibility to save their work and log off properly. Tell them under no circumstances should they ever come to you because they were too lazy to complete their job.

Hehe. Well any ideas how to set a auto log of in place, after x period of inactivity?

Thanks,

lieb39

ok now i think if it disconnects a user it will lock the pc anyway here it goes right click on the user and click the sessions tab then set idle session limit to what you wnat it to be and make 'when a session limit it reached..." disconnect session

I dunno about logging users off after a certain period of inactivity, but I would guess there is something in a GPO that you could set. As to how to logoff terminal services users, with a shutdown message, check out this command that you can put into a shutdown.bat file

Microsoft word has an autosave feature, so most of thier work will autosaved anyway if there auto logged off/shutdown.
I agree with Joel tho, thats probly what i would do..

We sometimes have this atwork when no one logs off can be a pain, there is a program which will auto logoff, reboot and also shutdown the workstation, i cant remember the name off the top of ma head lol

hey my above post i forgot to include this but anyway this works in terminal services and they can just reconnect from same client and it will resume there connection but im pretty sure this will work as normal logins i will try it sometime if you want

This isnt for terminal users, this is just a standard login to the AD from a client.

-lieb39

yeh i know but what im saying is it might work normally

what about you set a ScreenSaver that will lock the workstation after an hour of inactivity? That will be better than leaving the pc turned on

Setting a screensaver is not a good thing, since when the next person comes around they can't get in because the last person didn't log out.

-lieb39

I have this problem at school with teachers and students stealing the comp for the day to download stuff while its locked and teachers letting students get to databases, so the best thing we could do is do a seminar to teachers/staff that would tell them to logout/lock there pcs when they leave them and if they see a pc locked that isnt by a teacher to restart it

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...;314999&sd=tech
How To Force Users to Quit Programs and Log Off After a Period of Inactivity in Windows XP

I have implemented this in a numerous lab environments. If the users are not local admins, there are reg keys you need to give users RW access through GPOs since you said this was an AD environment.

Works fine for 2K and XP clients. Only issue, is that winexit.scr wont logout if an application is hung (normally).

HTH

They aren't admins.. I've been tryin to figure this out.. How abouts do I go around doing this?

Thanks

lieb39