Re: users locking eachother out

From: Brian Desmond [MVP] (desmondb_at_payton.cps.k12.il.us)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:41:11 -0500

Jay-

A user must be an administrator to unlock a workstation. 

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Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP
desmondb@payton.cps.k12.il.us
http://www.briandesmond.com
"Jay9333" <Jay9333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7CF07DA4-7D4A-4462-9AC9-B7F100EE07A9@microsoft.com...
> In my workplace we just recently stripped all our users of administrative
> rights.  Of course we get the usual complaints of "I can't install my
[insert
> ad-ware bundle programs] anymore".  But we also have gotten some
legitimate
> complaints as well.
>
> One complaint is that some users leave their computers for good while
logged
> in.  Then our other users can't unlock the computer or log the first user
off
> because they don't have administrative rights.  We lock computers after 10
> minutes, but we don't want to automatically log off our users after a
certain
> amount of time because we've deemed that would not be good for the type of
> work our users do.  So as it is, our users are just pulling the plugs on
the
> machines when this happens.
>
> Can you suggest a good work around.  I'm not aware of any way to give
normal
> users the right to log other normal users off.  Is this possible?  Our
users
> log into a windows 2000 domain, so if there isn't a way to do this through
> local computer policy I wonder if we could do it through Active
> Directory/Group Policy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay9333

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