Automatic shutdown after PC Logged off

[asjeff]

Hi all

wondering if someone can give me some pointers. I am looking to write a script that will automatically shut down a remote pc after it has been logged off for a set amount of time (eg half an hour). Now I am presuming that I will have to install this on something like the domain controller server so that it can check against AD/WMI etc, but really at a loss as to where to start. Has anyone else attempted something similar? I know the code to shut down the pc - I just need the mechanism of querying something (preferably not the actual machine itself to help minimise network traffic) to see if a machine is logged off. Alternatively is there a way of doing this with Group Policy or similar? All our machines run Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.

Cheers

Asjeff

 

[mrmovie]

how about a user log off script?

 

[asjeff]

Maybe something like passing the machine name as an argument to a remote script/exe as it logs off? Hadn't considered it but it seems a good angle. I'll have a look into it, unless anyone can think of any cons to this approach or something else?

Thanks very much.

Asjeff

 

[hieucao]

How about using these freeware utilities...they might be what you're looking for..

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html

http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm

Hieu