Disabling Shutdown but Keeping Restart Available to Users

[Ryan Rushing]

Hello,

I am looking for a way to use group policy or any other tool to disable the
shutdown option for an end user but we want to allow users to restart their
machines. The purpose of this is to discourage users from shutting down their
computers so that we can provide support and push updates, etc.

Currently, when we disable shutdown via group policy, restart capability is
also disabled. Is there anyway to disable shutdown capability but allow
restart capability?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Ryan Rushing
University of Florida

 

[Anteaus]

You could try putting AutoIt's Shutdown() command onto the startmenu.

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/Shutdown.htm

Don't have a domainmember computer handy to try this on, but I think it
should work despite the policy.