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Automatic Logoff in a Group Policy
Hey everyone, I have searched the web and have not found a solution that works to my particular problem. Here is the issue, I apologize as it may seem a bit confusing. We have some public workstations in our office that anyone can logon to using their network username/password. We would like to have the workstation automatically log them off after 2 minutes of inactivity. Here's the catch. We already have a group policy set on all users to have a screen saver run that locks their computer after 10 minutes of inactivity.
So far I have tried putting the public WS in an OU and setting a GP to kick off the winexit.scr after 2 minutes. However the GP that is applied to the users seems to override this and just kicks on the lock screen saver after 10 mintutes. I tried taking myself out of the OU for the users, but the GP for the public WS still does not kick off the winexit.scr I also set the public WS GP to not be overridden, but that doesn't work either. It seems as though a screen saver GP will only work when applied to users and not computers. Is this the case? If so can anyone think of a workaround? If worse comes to worse I wouldn't mind running a logon script that uses one screensaver when they are at their private WS and one when they are at any other WS. I would just need some help writing it. Thanks in advance.
So far I have tried putting the public WS in an OU and setting a GP to kick off the winexit.scr after 2 minutes. However the GP that is applied to the users seems to override this and just kicks on the lock screen saver after 10 mintutes. I tried taking myself out of the OU for the users, but the GP for the public WS still does not kick off the winexit.scr I also set the public WS GP to not be overridden, but that doesn't work either. It seems as though a screen saver GP will only work when applied to users and not computers. Is this the case? If so can anyone think of a workaround? If worse comes to worse I wouldn't mind running a logon script that uses one screensaver when they are at their private WS and one when they are at any other WS. I would just need some help writing it. Thanks in advance.
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