We don't do anything to force screen savers or restarts/shutdowns of PCs and laptops.
We have managed to get most people to run as limited users. This means we do spend some considerable time rebuilding application installers to fix where they write logs or to change file system permissions so that they will work for limited users. Unfortunately we still have some people who are still running as administrators on their computers. Peter Eden Workgroup Technology Support University of Toronto > -----Original Message----- > From: Kirk Foutts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Workstation Shutdown / Logoff Policy :VSMail mx1 > > This brings up another ?. I think this is a good discussion, but it > appears most are doing pretty much the same thing. The > other question > is local admin rights. Some software companies are still > writing software that require the user to have local admin > rights for their program to work correctly - as Scott says > I've had to learn to live with this. It amazes me that a > company like Corbel, now Relius with all its MS connections > and IT niches is still doing this. Anyway it seems to me that > when Vista hits, this is going to be a huge mess. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thompson, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Workstation Shutdown / Logoff Policy :VSMail mx1 > > I have a one hour lockout on the screen saver set via global > group policy. I would like to set it for a shorter time, but > I have mobile users who give presentations and whatnot > offsite. I have found that a > 15 minute timout is too short, and a 1 hour - though too long > for my taste - is at least acceptable. > > The last company I worked for I pushed the windows updates > using daisy - a program created in winbatch that I modified > to suit my needs - basically a WSUS server. When I inhereted > this company (as director of sysadmin :)) everyone had local > admin rights. After I learned to live with it (you have to > pick your battles) I configured everyones automagic updates > via group policy to install the udpates when available, and > then pester the user to reboot (yeah, I got some complaints > on that, but I like to call it tough love). It's actually > working quite well. When I run a baseline on the network a > day or two after black Tuesday it comes back very clean. > > Cheers, > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie Fullerton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Workstation Shutdown / Logoff Policy :VSMail mx1 > > 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. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > --- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > --- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
