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Force logoffs from W2k Servers

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by joshua1 1 view

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I'm running W2k DC's and NT 4.0 clients. I would like all users who are not domain admins to be logged off nightly. What's the easiest way to disconnect them so they must log in every morning?

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by vh_s

I thought you could use Logon hours to do that. It describe at what time users may logon.

Using the User Rights, you could tick an option to "forcing logout after logon hours expired .."

This is something from NT 4.0 which feature must also bepresent in W2K Server.

by joshua1

It's in the Account tab of each user's properties. However, I don't want to edit several hundred accounts by hand if it's not necessary. That's to error-prone and to hard to reverse. Any idea how to do this in a global or automated fashion?

by paul.a.wisniewski

under sercurty settings on the w2k dc , you need to set the policy's to log out users automatically , when there login time expires , make sure it is enabled
2k is not like nt4

by joshua1

I don't want to edit several hundred accounts by hand if it's not necessary. That's to error-prone and to hard to reverse. Any idea how to do this in a global or automated fashion? With your suggestion, I'll still have to adjust each user and modifyhis/her login time.

by paul.a.wisniewski

is there a chance of changing the default login times of the domain users group? since
when each user account created it is added to this group, once this change is made anyone belonging to the group will have the change.

by joshua1

Not that I've ever seen. If there is, please tell me how to do it, that would be a great solution.

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