Re: Configure a Scheduled Log-Off for Windows XP

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 10/14/04

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    Ann wrote:
    > I just recently been moved into out IT Dept. My 1st project is to create a
    > way for our Customer Service Dpt. to enable a scheduled auto log-off.
    >
    > We have representatives that do not log off at night when leaving and when
    > we do the back-ups they are not successful. Unfortunately, it is not the same
    > person, so it's not as simple as setting a policy on that computer.
    >
    > It's been accessed that this is not possible with Active Directory/Group
    > Policy. We are considering a 3rd party client-side application that forces
    > log-off at a set time - this must be done on the client side, not the server.
    >
    > If this is successful, we will roll it out to the entire company.
    >
    > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
    Hi

    I suggest that you put Psshutdown.exe (free) from SysInternals in a
    scheduled task that logs off the user at a set time (or do a
    shutdown/poweroff instead)

    Note that from my own testing, WinXP's builtin shutdown.exe utility is
    not able to log off another user than the one user that is defined as
    the "task" user. This means that it is pretty useless in this scenario.

    Psshutdown.exe in SysInternals's free PSTools suite does not suffer
    under this limitation and is the tool I recommends to use in this case.

    http://www.sysinternals.com

    You can use SCHTASKS.exe to create the scheduled task, run SCHTASKS /?
    in a command prompt for more help. 

    -- 
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
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