Script to force a reestart when a user performs a Log off (Windows)

I have tried that as well...but the log off seems to take prevalence over the psshutdown and the computer never gets rebooted.

Not sure.

The logoff process is probably killing the restart process making the script fail.

You know what would probably work, is that if you had the logoff script execute a cmd on another computer that reboots the computer that was logged off of(using psexec or psshutdown).

Hello there

I found this and wondered if it may help you?

These settings control what action the system should take when the Logoff and Shutdown commands are used.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Shutdown
Value Name: LogoffSetting, ShutdownSetting
Data Type: REG_DWORD

Create or modify the two DWORD values called "LogoffSetting" and
"ShutdownSetting" according the values from the list below.
  * 0 - Log Off
  * 1 - Shutdown
  * 2 - Shutdown and Restart
  * 3 - Shutdown and Power Off
Log off or restart Windows for the changes to take effect.

Hope this helps. If it works then I can provide a script to set all machines registry value as required via either a GPO, Logon Script or a remote registry script - whichever option (or other option I'v enot mentioned) is best for you. :-)

Regards

Krystian

It appears that after making the registry change/edit that it still only logs a user off.

Thanks for you reply.

I have created Shutdown Key (it wasn't there before) (User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Shutdown)

and the 2 values as follow:

Value Name: LogoffSetting, ShutdownSetting
Data Type: REG_DWORD

I have entered

LogoffSetting = 2

ShutdownSetting = 1

Then reboot the machine...

Is that correct?

If I perform a manual a log off the computer does not reboot...I am missing something here?

Regarding to the script I posted before.

Looks like intRet = opSys.Win32Shutdown(2+4,0) is not able to perform the reboot because the log off is taking place.

I have also tried with a shutdown -r -t 0 and I don't get any error message but once again the log off takes over the shutdown command.

I've manually tried the command and seemed to work fine. The soon.exe scheduled an AT task and peformed a reboot.

I have tried to create the .bat file and pasted the line of code (before I copied the soon.exe over system32) when I run the bat file it doesn't seemed to work I get into a loop where the line of code repeats over and over again (I can see that on the MS shell window).

This is what I am talkign about it.

i tested it with soon.exe in the system32 folder and by putting the .bat file in the logoff script section of GPO

How are you creating the batch file.

I have created a .bat file and then pasted the line of code. When I double click on the .bat file I get the cmd window I have attached.

Forget it I added a cd\ before the line of code...and worked fine this time. It's extrange though becasue I have place the soon.exe on system32.

that is strange....so it works for you now?

Now I have placed the script at the log off (GPO) and when loggin off the MS window remains fix  saying "Running Log off Scripts"

I manually tested the .bat file also did a manual log off and after 5 seconds the computer was rebooted.  

I have removed the "cd\"

and modify the line of code adding .exe (soon.exe \\%computername% 60 /interactive shutdown -r -t 5)
...now works fine with GPO.

So I was missing the .exe and the "\cd" was messing the whole thing up.

Anyway if you or anybody knows how to reestart with a script while loging off via GPO I would appreciate any comments.  I still can't believe that is not working...or that I am the only one trying to do that.

Thank you for very much for your help.