Force XP workstations to reboot for policy refresh

[drew1701d]

I support several networks (both with WinXP SP3 clients and Win2003 SP2 servers)and deploy some software via Group Policy. Is there a product or tool that can have the workstation detect if no one is logged on and reboot automatically so group policies can be refreshed?

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[SimonDavies]

The only way I can think of doing this would be to use a shutdown -i to bring up the GUI for the shutdown process (it will do a restart), unfortunately it won't tell you whether a user is logged on or not.

I think you would need something like Hyena or have a look here.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Q_21371070.html

for some further links.

For either solution you would need to be an Admin tho.

Simon

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[Lemon13]

gpupdate could do the job ( /boot), but it also cant tell u if a user is logged on, but a script should do the job

 

[SimonDavies]

But can you remote a gpupdate, I thought that was only a locally run thing.

Simon

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[linney]

Have you seen this approach?

How to Force Remote Group Policy Processing

http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/How-Force-Remote-Group-Policy-Processing.html