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Windows 2008 R2 screensaver / lock screen

I have a number of windows 2008 r2 hosts...and I would like to have the screens automatically lock after 10 minutes of inactivity. My first thought was to create a group policy to set the screensaver/timeout/lock option. No problem with this...and the machines pick it up and you even see the proper settings in the screensaver dialog.

The problem that I am having is...the screensaver never kicks on. I have the screensaver exe set to scrnsave.scr and the screensaver timeout is set lower than the display timeout. This happens on ts sessions / and several workstations.

What am I missing?

Darius Ghassem

Are you applying the GPO to the whole domain or just to the TS servers?

This is a User gpo.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24378484/Reset-Screen-Saver-Group-Policy-Server-2008.html

fertigj

ASKER

I have the gpo applied to a small ou of w2k8 servers. I did enable loopback policy processing for this gp. The policy itself is getting to the machines, meaning I can see that the screensaver is set and is the proper timeout. It just never triggers.

Thoughts?

Darius Ghassem

So, you are getting the policy.

Run gpresult to see what is actually going on the applying

fertigj

ASKER

This shows that the policy has been applied but
For whatever reason it never kicks off

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