Switch User / Fast User Switching Question

[TheAG]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm looking into the feasibility of removing "Switch User" function for students. It is causing problems with Impero and the 1 concurrent login limit we have set, along with machines running out of resources due to loads of students logged in. I want to keep it for the teachers as they find it very useful and it makes support a bit easier.

 

In GMPC I can only see an entry for Fast User Switching as a computer policy, ideally this needs to be a user policy or only affect users.

 

Has anyone has any luck in doing this or has any ideas?

 

Thanks

-Arran

[Oaktech]

Do students frequently log on to machines used by teachers and vise versa? Could you set it up as a machine policy to an OU containing just student machines, or could you target the GPO to specific machines by WMI filter with some distinguishing feature?

[TheAG]

Students are not allowed to use teachers machines, we get some teachers using student machines as we have a couple of classrooms that double as offices. I have a group setup in AD for just classroom workstations so I can use that as a filter for a GPO but I wanted to run this as a user policy rather than a computer one.

 

I have done a bit of hunting and it looks like it is only a computer policy.

[Sagima]

Could you use loopback policy to only apply it to to your users?

[TheAG]

I can get this to apply to the workstations ok, but not to individual users.

I have tried to use the loopback but it doesn't work regardless how it gets configured. I think we are just going to go down the route and completely remove the function for all users, we have just had five staff in complaining their workstations are running slow, upon checking they all had three users logged in with Outlook, SIMS and Word open...

 

Thanks for the advice.