Prevent users from shutting down windows server 2008

The Shutdown, Sleep and Restart buttons will become unavailable. After you have granted a user the privileges to restart your servers, you may want to know who restarted a server: a user or one of the administrators. To do it, use the Event Viewer eventvwr. As you can see, there are the events of server restart in the log in the chronological order. The event description shows the restart time, the reason and the account that restarted the server. In the same way, you can get the information about latest Windows shutdown events.

To do it, filter the logs by the Event ID I have a need to allow user to restart their machines but not shutdown. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Leave this field empty. Oscar This person is a verified professional. Gary D Williams This person is a verified professional.

Jimmy This person is a verified professional. Kelly Armitage wrote: 1. Bill Kindle wrote: Kelly Armitage wrote: 1. On the other hand I could just be wrong DanaR This person is a verified professional. So you don't believe in Terminal Services? Y wrote: I have 2 windows 7 client that logs into windows server via Remote Desktop to run some accounting apps. OP, disable their admin rights on the server, they shouldn't have it without good reason.

If the software doesn't run without admin rights, consider it a security risk and look elsewhere. Kelly Armitage wrote Ricardo This person is a verified professional.

Dan Sep 15, at UTC. DanaR wrote: ae2 wrote: So you don't believe in Terminal Services? It was not meant to be aggressive. Installing these applications on a server makes backups much easier for the data, especially things like Payroll and Accounting. Especially when you have multiple users, installing on a server using Terminal Services or RemoteApp makes sense, as you have less installations, less points of failure, easier management, patching, and servers will normally have better IO as well.

If this was a 1 user thing I'd agree, but because multiple users are accessing this same database, and the database's type, I think having a server installation is the better option. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting.

WPKG is a simple and powerful open source solution designed to deploy software on Windows machines without repackaging installers Why not patch during office hours without automatic restarts? Telling users not to shut down is not really green IT increases the power costs of your company.

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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Redirect user profile folders documents, pictures, etc. For a long time, roaming profiles and folder redirection were the standard means under Windows for making user files available on different devices. Now that more and more users work on the road or at home rather than in the office, this technique is becoming increasingly obsolete.

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