Group Policy to Shutdown Workstations

Hello - At our school I would like to use a group policy on our Win2003
server to automatically shutdown XP workstations each evening that have not
been turned off in the classrooms at the end of the school day. I assume I
have to create an AD group of classroom computers and apply this policy only
to those machines. What is the best way to accomplish this and where do I
find the GPO that will allow me to do this? TIA - Scott Schaffer, Heschel Day
School

You'll need to add a scheduled task on each workstation that will do that.
(the only thing that you can do with the GPO is to push that task).

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Regards,
Andrei Ungureanu
www.itboard.ro

"Scott Schaffer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7F3E6F46-811C-449C-93B5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello - At our school I would like to use a group policy on our Win2003
> server to automatically shutdown XP workstations each evening that have
> not
> been turned off in the classrooms at the end of the school day. I assume I
> have to create an AD group of classroom computers and apply this policy
> only
> to those machines. What is the best way to accomplish this and where do I
> find the GPO that will allow me to do this? TIA - Scott Schaffer, Heschel
> Day
> School

If I add a scheduled task to do this how can I make sure that it will shut
down the machine no matter who is logged on or if nobody is logged on? Will
it give the user an opt out if by chance the machine is in use?

Thanks, Scott

"Andrei Ungureanu" wrote:

> You'll need to add a scheduled task on each workstation that will do that.
> (the only thing that you can do with the GPO is to push that task).
>
> --
> Regards,
> Andrei Ungureanu
> www.itboard.ro
>
> "Scott Schaffer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:7F3E6F46-811C-449C-93B5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello - At our school I would like to use a group policy on our Win2003
> > server to automatically shutdown XP workstations each evening that have
> > not
> > been turned off in the classrooms at the end of the school day. I assume I
> > have to create an AD group of classroom computers and apply this policy
> > only
> > to those machines. What is the best way to accomplish this and where do I
> > find the GPO that will allow me to do this? TIA - Scott Schaffer, Heschel
> > Day
> > School
>
>
>

check the help of the shutdown command:
shutdown /?

Andrei Ungureanu
www.itboard.ro

"Scott Schaffer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:BFC831C5-1EBE-4EDD-A46F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> If I add a scheduled task to do this how can I make sure that it will shut
> down the machine no matter who is logged on or if nobody is logged on?
> Will
> it give the user an opt out if by chance the machine is in use?
>
> Thanks, Scott
>
> "Andrei Ungureanu" wrote:
>
>> You'll need to add a scheduled task on each workstation that will do
>> that.
>> (the only thing that you can do with the GPO is to push that task).
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Andrei Ungureanu
>> www.itboard.ro
>>
>> "Scott Schaffer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>> message
>> news:7F3E6F46-811C-449C-93B5-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Hello - At our school I would like to use a group policy on our Win2003
>> > server to automatically shutdown XP workstations each evening that have
>> > not
>> > been turned off in the classrooms at the end of the school day. I
>> > assume I
>> > have to create an AD group of classroom computers and apply this policy
>> > only
>> > to those machines. What is the best way to accomplish this and where do
>> > I
>> > find the GPO that will allow me to do this? TIA - Scott Schaffer,
>> > Heschel
>> > Day
>> > School
>>
>>
>>