Force Users to Logoff

[Guest]

I've set group policies (default and user) to force logoff. The users have a
allowed hours of 8am to 11pm. After 11pm all users that did not logoff
manually are still logged in. Why?? What do I need to check or do (all the
steps please!!) to make this work?
Thx

 

[Guest]

What applications were left running on their machine? If the applications do
not respond to the terminate command, then it won't log them off...a perfect
example is Outlook. If you leave Outlook open and try to do a logoff, it
pops up a message that says please close the application before logging
off/shutting down.
The other thing too that may happen is the user has locked the workstation
or enabled a password protected screensaver.

Mike.

 

[Guest]

Neither is the case

I am doing a test user with nothing opened. Just logged in and nothing in
'startup' or anything and it does NOT work.

Any ideas please?

Thx

 

[Guest]

Can you verify the policy is applied? Event log messages? Make a different
change to the policy that is more visible.

Mike.

 

[Brian K. Sheperd]

Did you check the local security policy? Local Policies\Security
Options\Automatically log off users when logon time expires (local)

Brian

 

[Brian K. Sheperd]

Disregard my last post. I don't know what I was thinking - you would have
already set this item.. My cold medicine must have kicked in.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Good thought but that will not work either. What that will do is logoff
users connected to that computer via smb access such as file shares. A
possibility is to use the AT command to force users to logoff at a
particular time using the command logoff, shutdown -l, or PsShutDown. Such a
method however would not be selective as to user. The /interactive switch
may be needed to make it work. AT command could be used in a startup script
in Group Policy to apply to computers within the scope of a GPO. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313565 -- how to
use AT command.