On our citrix farm we had a logoff command we wanted to run to remove users from a migration group. After three weeks, I actually had to set the command to run when a session was disconnected, rather than at logoff, because 99%+ of our users just switch devices off instead of logging out. That stat staggered me.
Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -----Original Message----- From: "Kennedy, Jim" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:14:58 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: RE: Win 7 psshutdown They might actually still be working. This to shut down everyone at 9pm, which is long after most everyone has gone home. If they are still here they can cancel, we have no problem with that. It is an energy savings/protect them from themselves move. I am absolutely amazed at the number of computers that are left on, let alone logged in, every night. It has taken all the self-control I have to not walk up to the boxes and send out Viagra adds to the rest of the staff under their name. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 7 psshutdown Ahh, drat and bother. I mentally skipped that requirement from you. But now I have to ask, why are you offering the ability to cancel if you are administratively shutting down? -- Espi On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: When you read my next reply in this thread you will be doing a -1 :) I don't see where shutdown meets the need for a user cancel. The -I in shutdown only seems to pop the standard GUI you would normally use for remote shutdown. This works, universal on all OS's...quick easy copy with a scheduled task to the desktops. http://mockbox.net/miscellaneous/100-hta-script-shutdown-script-and-warning-message.html From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 7 psshutdown +1 -- Espi On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Use the shutdown.exe built-in command. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 12:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win 7 psshutdown Want to shut down our desktops at night. Always used psshutdown as a scheduled task for XP prior to this. Win 7 is proving to be quite an adventure. Screen popping a cancel button for the user is a requirement. Seems Win 7 uses different session id's for users than xp did. At least on 64 bit which is what we have. psshutdown has not been updated to reflect that, so the work around is to run it via psexec and use the session id feature of psexec. Except now you have a service/program trying pop a message and Win 7 semi-blocks that...first it asks for your permission to pop the message. Very cumbersome and ugly. Here is what I am doing: psexec -i 1 -h -u domain\username -p "password -accepteula C:\psshutdown.exe-c -f -t 120 -accepteula Any ideas how to skin this cat? 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