So, from the looks of most of the replies, folks are counting on GPO/WSUS to
enforce screenlock/updating, but rely on the end-user to restart their
systems.

Anyone actually forcing reboots?

t

On 8/16/06 12:18 PM, "Jamie Fullerton" <Jamie.Fullerton (at) ndbt (dot) com [email concealed]> spoketh to
all:

> Our current policy is that all stand-alone workstations have their
> screensaver set to a 10 minute screensaver with the password required to
> log back into the system. We encourage people to power off their
> machines at night but we don't become the Power Gestapo in enforcing
> this.
>
> Our WSUS is configured to redeploy an update if the client is powered
> down during the initial push of an update (normally an early morning
> hour with little other traffic on the network).
>
> On our Citrix clients all clients have their session terminated after
> three hours of inactivity. This ensures that all clients are logged out
> at the end of the business day. If for whatever reason they are not
> fully logged off the servers, the Citrix servers themselves are rebooted
> once a day as well.
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