Scheduled Task? Seems like you're making a mountain out of a mole hill. How
is that better than tying to the logon process that they have to do anyways?


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm maybe thinking something like that is better than tying it to the logon
> process, yes. Probably a scheduled task on a DC or some such like. Obviously
> targeted to a group to avoid picking up admins and the like.
>
>
> On 17 March 2011 14:05, Guyer, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  How about running a script against AD that queries that setting, to look
>> for any empty values?
>>
>>
>>
>> *Don Guyer*
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>> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:52 AM
>>
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Re: Good way to prevent logon under certain conditions?
>>
>>
>>
>> That's the way it's done. I just want some way of making sure that it *is
>> * set to head off the support calls that may ensue if some user gets
>> missed (because they will get some ugly errors). I could do it with a quick
>> batch command but I was just wondering if anyone knew of anything different.
>>
>> On 17 March 2011 13:45, Guyer, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Why not just set their home drive in AD?
>>
>>
>>
>> *Don Guyer*
>>
>> Windows Systems Engineer
>>
>> Datasafe Platform
>>
>> Enterprise Technology Group
>>
>> *Fiserv*
>>
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>>
>> Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673
>>
>> Fax: 610-293-4499
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>> www.fiserv.com
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>>
>>
>> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:45 AM
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Good way to prevent logon under certain conditions?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have some users that I don't want to be able to log on to the system
>> unless they have a valid home drive set. Is there any way anyone can think
>> of to achieve this? I could just do a "if not exist H: logoff" action as a
>> logon script but that seems to run a little clunkily, does anyone have a
>> more elegant way of achieving this that they can think of offhand?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>
>>
>> JRR
>>
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