We force it in our computer labs via the shutdown.exe command issued from a server. We will also be rolling it out to our admin network in the very near future.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:55 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
