What occurs to me is that you want the users to start using the domain logon only. If you set the cache to 0, as you likely reasoned out already, the user would have to be always connected. That's not good in an increasingly mobile clientele.
"Force" might be too strong a tactic. I think the better term here is "entice" the user to logon to the domain. "Coerce" might also be relevant. The easiest answer is to use policy and ease-of-use your way forward. Certainly you want to reduce the amount of logon locally by removing administrator access. That won't do a lot of good if the user is a local administrator. They could just do what they want anyway in that case. If you remove the administrative access, that's well and good, but there are drawbacks to that especially for mobile workers. Can be a PITA.
Making it desirable to logon via the domain is a low-stress way to get the users better trained and overall happier. Make it easier to logon to applications such as email, im, portal, etc if they also logon via AD. Have a password change policy (layer-8 policy reinforced with technical policy)that discourages using local logons and saving passwords if not prevents saving passwords locally.
Will you get 100% compliance from day 1? Not likely. Will you get 80-90%? More likely if you craft this policy and deployment well. You'll have some stragglers to deal with later, but you'll spend a lot less effort with much better results if you take the low-impact way up front.
Unless you have some other driving need to get to 100% compliance? If that's the case, then you'll have to take more drastic measures and break a few eggs while you make this omlete.
Al
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 05:35:42 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?
You can change them remotely.Changing them via GPO simply means that the password will have to reside locally on the system, and there's no reason for that...-ASB
On 5/16/06, Joe Lagreca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Sergio,
That is the approach we are going to take. Write a script to run at
start up to delete all local accounts, except administrator, which
only we should know the password for.
Do you have any ideas on how to change local account passwords via GPO
or remotely? We would like to change the administrator passwords
initially, and probably like to change it on a continual basis.
Thank you.
Joe
On 5/16/06, Olivarez, Sergio J Mr CTNOSC/GD-NS
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, disregard what I said about just leaving Admins on the "allow logon
> locally" setting, that's my bad. I guess best thing to do would be delete
> all existing local user accounts.
>
> -Sergio
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Lagreca [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 7:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?
>
> Al and others,
>
> We are retrofitting previously deployed workstations. Some have local
> logins, while others do not. I was just wondering if there is a way,
> via GPO, to force all users to log into the domain, instead of giving
> them the option to log into their local machine.
>
> I have been told that "In a GPO set the cached logon setting to "0"
> and make sure "allow logon locally" is only set to Admins." will not
> work. However I still need to test this myself. I was told "allow
> logon locally" will make it so all unlisted users will not be able to
> login from that workstation, whether its locally or to the domain.
>
> I realize their profiles wouldn't copy, and we can deal with that
> afterwards.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
>
> On 5/15/06, Al Mulnick < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think you've seen several ways of achieving something similar to
> > what you've asked for. But I'm curious as to what you really want to
> > accomplish. You've put something very specific, but what makes you
> > want to force the logon? What's the backstory?
> >
> > Al
> >
> > On 5/15/06, Joe Lagreca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to force users to logon to domain, or to disable loging
> into
> > > local computer accounts via GPO?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
