Removing shut down options

[NADIAZIPPER]

Our company would like to only allow users to reboot and not have any other options when shutting down the pc. We have tried a GP but all we can find is to remove all shutdown options or log off options. What I would like is the ability to either remove all the choices except restart or to replace the shutdown button a restart button. I have looked through the registry and have not been able to find anything. Any ideas???

 

[gpalmer711]

I'm sure there is a much easier way, and my idea may not work, I don't have time to test at the moment.

Howabout creating a shutdown script that you can force using GPO.

Which contains the following

shutdown -a
shutdown -r

This should abort the users shutdown and initiate a restart.

Greg Palmer
Free Software for Adminstrators

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[NADIAZIPPER]

I was hoping for more of a way to replace the shutdown button with a new command. We want to apply this to desktops only so the GP has to run per machine and not per user. I have found all the GP that can remove the log off button, remove the shut down menu, just wish I could leave the restart option.

 

[NADIAZIPPER]

I have never vreated a script for this before. What do I need to do? DO I just create a bat file with the action and then point to that or is there something else?

 

[gpalmer711]

It is a simple as that, you can then use GP to initiate the script at shutdown.

Greg Palmer
Free Software for Adminstrators

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[NADIAZIPPER]

I created a bat file with this: shutdown -r -t 00
But nothing happens. After reading up on logoff scripts I read something where the shutdown command is the last item ran after the script, so even if your script is to restart, if the shut down command is to shut down, then it will not reboot. Any other ideas??