Re: Need to automate workstation tasks

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| Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:12:14 +0200
| From: Florian Frommherz <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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| Howdie Bob!
|
| Bob wrote:
| > 1) Run a little program I already have at 18:45 that warns the user the
| > workstation will be logged off unless the user performs some activity.
|
| You can use at.exe or SchTasks.exe as already advised by Gerry. Just set
| up a task that would launch the application. You can add that as a
| Computer Startup script.
|
| > 2) Detect if a logged on workstation has been idle for the past 15
minutes
| > and if so, log them off at 19:00.
|
| You would need to script that as you cannot trigger that by using Group
| Policy. Have a look at the Scripting Guy! example here:
|
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/nov04/hey1115.
mspx
|
| ...that should offer you the ability to check if the workstation is
| already locked.
|
| > 3) Set "cleanmgr.exe /sageset:01" for each profile on the workstation.
| >
| > 4). Run Disk Cleanup (CLEANMGR.EXE) on each profile at 19:10
| >
| > 5). Detect if the workstation is logged off and if so, shutdown the
| > workstation at 23:00
|
| Those can only be performed by using scheduled tasks in combination with
| the a script that would check whether the workstations is locked or no
| user is logged on.
|
| Before you mess around with more or less useful scripts, you should talk
| to your users, write them an email that will tell you that they shall
| logout when leaving office. Tell them the computer will be forced to
| shut down and rebooted at a certain time and that unfinished work will
| be lost. It is much easier to solve this kind of "human" problems with
| human solutions than taking several technical actions. Don't know if
| talking to them will work for you, but worth a try.
|
| cheers,
|
| Florian
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| Nachwuchsadmin aus dem Süddeutschen/Germany.
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| blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.
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