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by shanna

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This has also been posted in the Windows XP discussion area.

I have enabled the domain group policy in Server 2003 to forcibly disconnect our Windows XP users at a specific time each evening. I was hoping there would be a warning displayed on their PCs 5 or 10 minutes prior to the disconnection, but for some reason there isn't.

Is there any way to configure the server to display an advance warning?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

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by curlergirl

If this is a system-wide policy, you could write a batch file to send a system message to all workstations (something like "NOTICE: You will be automatically logged off the network in X minutes. Please save your work now and close all programs") and then run it as a scheduled task.

If you're not familiar with the NET SEND command, the syntax is:

net send [variables] message

"net send /users message" will send the message to all users who are currently logged on to the server.

Hope this helps!

by shanna

Thanks very much for your assistance, Synergy/dlo... it DOES in fact help. My main concern though, is that in NT Server 4.0 it automatically displayed the warning on the user's PCs without any need for a NET SEND warning, but with Server 2003 it doesn't look like that is possible. I am just curious if there was some setting within the GPO that I was missing but couldn't locate.

Once again... thanks for your help, but I'll leave the question open in case anyone else has suggestions.

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