CC4 - Enable Switch User

[snagrat]

I am temporarily supporting a CC4 network until it is rebuilt to a Windows Vanilla network.

 

One request is for a single computer to have the facility to switch user, rather than having to log out.

 

Is this possible to set through the RM Management Console?

[WorksOnMyPC]

Your only option is to look at the Computer policies in RMMC and see if you can create a new policy that does what you need.

 

RM doesn't behave very well when you try to do different things. Worse case you can look at the GPOs directly.

[Techykev]

My previous workplace was CC4.3 (Win 7) and both the IT team and Premises team used Fast User Switcher, simply copy the .exe to the C Drive and a shortcut placed on the default desktop. Don't believe you can do it from the RMMC policies if I remember correctly but never had much issue using FUS for the odd one or two PC's with only a few people accessing them.

Download Fast User Switch v0.1 (freeware) - AfterDawn: Software downloads

[snagrat]

Just did it through Group Policy in the end

[AlanD]

Not sure why you would want a machine to switch users ...vaguely useful for a shared desktop I suppose....

I find a virtual pc useful to use as a student workstation to test stuff....hadn’t thought of switching instead...

[snagrat]

Not sure why you would want a machine to switch users ...vaguely useful for a shared desktop I suppose....

I find a virtual pc useful to use as a student workstation to test stuff....hadn’t thought of switching instead...

 

I don’t know why you wouldn’t want a machine to switch user.

 

Come into a room to find a teacher has everything open for the lesson. I need to login as an admin to make a simple change, maybe install some USB hardware, and you want to log the teacher fully off to do that?!

[andyturpie]

FUS does come with a few headaches - granted this cannot be done through RMMC, but through a standard GPO. One thing to remember this that it can through issues on applications which run on start up, like a papercut client apparently. BTW we haven't set up FUS here, but was talking with a nearby school (CC4.5) last week who implemented it and possibly will remove it again lol.