temporarily disable all but administrator login

[Guest Stuart Harden]

I would like a way to disable logins, but not as at a regular time, nor on a

per user basis.

 

When running updates or other system intensive maintenance, it would be nice

to have a message explaining why users are not currently allowed to login.

 

We have remote workers, who do not fit into a regular lock out scenario (do

work when you have it and can do it, not because it is "time"), and I am

looking for a way to alert them on a login attempt that there is maintenance

underway.

 

Scheduled maintenance is a beautiful thing, but there are situations that

are more efficiently handled without a consensus. On such an occasion, I

can of course lock out each user, but that is laborious and does not give

them an explanation...I could create a group policy and add my users to it

when necessary...but do not know how do accomplish my desire with such a

policy.

 

Any ideas, or am I just going to have to field calls at 1am as to why

someone's login is disabled?

 

Thanks in advance for the input-

 

Stuart

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: temporarily disable all but administrator login

 

 

"Stuart Harden" <capitolimpact@googlemail.com> wrote in message

news:7DC3855E-FC67-4102-8170-100C98BF3188@microsoft.com...

>I would like a way to disable logins, but not as at a regular time, nor on

>a per user basis.

>

> When running updates or other system intensive maintenance, it would be

> nice to have a message explaining why users are not currently allowed to

> login.

>

> We have remote workers, who do not fit into a regular lock out scenario

> (do work when you have it and can do it, not because it is "time"), and I

> am looking for a way to alert them on a login attempt that there is

> maintenance underway.

>

> Scheduled maintenance is a beautiful thing, but there are situations that

> are more efficiently handled without a consensus. On such an occasion, I

> can of course lock out each user, but that is laborious and does not give

> them an explanation...I could create a group policy and add my users to it

> when necessary...but do not know how do accomplish my desire with such a

> policy.

>

> Any ideas, or am I just going to have to field calls at 1am as to why

> someone's login is disabled?

>

> Thanks in advance for the input-

>

> Stuart

 

You could modify your logon script: First you explain in

a dialog box what's going on, then you use shutdown.exe

to log the user off.