delpoyment of winexit

[Guest]

Hello

Our management team has decided that is it necessary to automatically log
off user after a certain period of inactivity, muhc like our mainframe
environment. I have found and tested winexit and it seems to be the answer.

However, I am curious and would appreciate any thoughts on how we should
delpoy this solution to the 350+ workstations. I would like to use GPO, but I
am unsure on how to create an mis package for this install. Additionally, we
would like to have a GPO which sets the parameters for WiNEXIT.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Mark Clark

 

[Ryan Hanisco]

Mark,

I am sure you have looked at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297267
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;156677

Remember that this is a tool designed for NT 3.51 and 4.0. Do very thorough
testing and consider the security changes that the needed registry keys
inflict.

As to distribution, you can't really install it as software as it is not
using an installer. Rather you'll need to script the copy of this to the
system32 directory and create a GPO for setting the requisite registry
keys -- the alternative is to creat a .reg file and do a registry merge in
the logon script.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your response Ryan
I had not reviewed those specific articles as of yet.
I was referencing other articles.

I was able to install on a workstation as local admin and verified operation.

However when I logged on as the user I had to modify the screen saver
settings and when it came time to p[rompt the user before logoff I received
the following error: "Error encountered while creating registry key. Make
sure you ave Set Value and Create Subkey permissions." Once I click OK then
the process resumes. All done as the user.

This might be a challenge to implement across the domain, let alone to
automate.

Mark

 

[Guest]

Hello Ryan

I have not reviewed these articles yet. I was referncing other articles and
some info from WindowIT Pro.

I was able to install as the local admin on my test workstation. I also
verified correct operation.

However, when I log on as the user I have to set the screen saver, which
makes sense. Profile specific.
When the screen saver tries to prompt the user of log off, then I receive
the following error: "Error encountered while creating registry key. Make
sure you have Set Value and Create Subkey permissiones." Once I click ok,
then the process resumes. All while logged on as the user.

This could be quite challenging to deploy across the domain, not to mention
automating the install and config.

Mark

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hello

Our management team has decided that is it necessary to automatically log
off user after a certain period of inactivity, muhc like our mainframe
environment. I have found and tested winexit and it seems to be the answer.

However, I am curious and would appreciate any thoughts on how we should
delpoy this solution to the 350+ workstations. I would like to use GPO, but I
am unsure on how to create an mis package for this install. Additionally, we
would like to have a GPO which sets the parameters for WiNEXIT.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Mark Clark

See tip 9130 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com for another option.


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com