Disable windows Shut Down

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Bill

Hi, I have circa 100 Windows2000 clients (Windows 2000
Server, AD) spread over 6 departments. The PC's are mixed
laptop/desktop machines and each department runs a
different login script.

I'd like to disable the Windows Shut Down option so that
the PC's remained on all the time. This would be ideal for
scheduling programs out-of-hours like full virus scans.

Of course, this would not be feasible with the laptops,
they obviously need to be shut down when removed from the
building. What is the easiest way to differentiate between
the two types of system (laptop+desktop) and implement
this through group policy?

Thanks, Bill
 
I'd place the two types of computers each in a separate
OU, (i.e. Laptop OU, and Desktop OU, then set up the
different GPs for each OU.

Sandy
 
Bill-

On Windows 2000, there isn't a straight group policy way of doing this.
Seperating the machines into OUs would make things alot easier.

On Windows XP, you can define what are called WMI Filers, which say aply
this GPO on machines meeting criteria X, Y, & Z.

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