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* >> >> Windows Systems Engineer >> >> Datasafe Platform >> >> Enterprise Technology Group >> >> *Fiserv* >> >> [email protected] >> >> Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 >> >> Fax: 610-293-4499 >> >> www.fiserv.com >> >> >> >> *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* >> >> [email protected] >> >> Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 >> >> Fax: 610-293-4499 >> >> www.fiserv.com >> >> >> >> *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 >> >> -- >> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into >> the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able >> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such >> a question." >> >> *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual >> addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, >> privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, >> no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. 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