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GPO to log off idle users who have been switched from in Windows 7

Answered GPO to log off idle users who have been switched from in Windows 7

  • Freitag, 23. November 2012 16:01
     
     
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    Hi guys.  Is there a GPO that will automatically log off a user account that had been switched out of by the "switch" button on a locked screen after a certain idle time period?  Only catch is that if the session hasn't been switched out of, but has been idle for that same period, I would not want it to be logged off, for instance if someone went to a meeting that last longer than this time period but nobody else logged on to that machine.

    We have a lot of users who move between machines, sometimes forgetting to log off machine 1 before they move to machine 2 and log on.  If another user hits "switch" then logs on, that leaves the other users session running in the background, which we don't want.

     

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  • Freitag, 23. November 2012 20:09
     
     
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    Hello,

    You can enable this policy:

    http://superuser.com/questions/303556/windows-7-lock-computer-prevent-another-user-from-logging-in

    This will prevent the users from switching.

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  • Freitag, 23. November 2012 20:20
     
     
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    Thanks Matthias. 

    If I do this though, and a user leaves a computer locked, how will we then be able to log them off so someone else can log on to the computer?

     
  • Samstag, 24. November 2012 13:51
     
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    That's not possible through Group Policy. You will need a script that sits in the background in each user's session and monitors the session state...

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  • Montag, 26. November 2012 04:55
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    Hi,

    I agree with Martin. It cannot be perform by using Group Policy.

    We can seek help regarding scripts from our script forum: 

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/

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  • Montag, 3. Dezember 2012 08:08
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    Hi,

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