We encourage our users to log off their workstations at night -- rather
than lock them or shut down -- so that updates can be applied via WSUS
(and also so our AV scans can run at night with as much proc power they
want).

Bill

William Bova, MCSE
University of Texas at Austin
b.bova (at) its.utexas (dot) edu [email concealed]

-----Original Message-----
From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor (at) hammerofgod (dot) com [email concealed]]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:55 AM
To: Focus-MS
Subject: Re: Workstation Shutdown / Logoff Policy :VSMail mx1

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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