We encourage our users to log off their workstations at night -- rather than lock them or shut down -- so that updates can be applied via WSUS (and also so our AV scans can run at night with as much proc power they want).
Bill William Bova, MCSE University of Texas at Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:55 AM To: Focus-MS Subject: Re: Workstation Shutdown / Logoff Policy :VSMail mx1 So, from the looks of most of the replies, folks are counting on GPO/WSUS to enforce screenlock/updating, but rely on the end-user to restart their systems. Anyone actually forcing reboots? t On 8/16/06 12:18 PM, "Jamie Fullerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoketh to all: > Our current policy is that all stand-alone workstations have their > screensaver set to a 10 minute screensaver with the password required > to log back into the system. We encourage people to power off their > machines at night but we don't become the Power Gestapo in enforcing > this. > > Our WSUS is configured to redeploy an update if the client is powered > down during the initial push of an update (normally an early morning > hour with little other traffic on the network). > > On our Citrix clients all clients have their session terminated after > three hours of inactivity. This ensures that all clients are logged > out at the end of the business day. If for whatever reason they are > not fully logged off the servers, the Citrix servers themselves are > rebooted once a day as well. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
