logging a student off

[mikeymike]

is there something in AD where you can log an account off almost straight away??

[tmcd35]

You could use a remote control tool like vnc, iTalc, NetOp, ABTutor, etc to take control of the users session and log them out.

 

Or if you know the terminal name, shut the terminal down remotely

 

cmd> shutdown.exe /c\\

[Michael]

If you prefer to use the GUI, right click your desktop and choose New > Shortcut. Enter the following path exactly:

 

c:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -i

 

Name the shortcut whatever you like. Now double click the shortcut and the rest should be self explanatory

[cromertech]

You can use psshutdown to log off the console user (part of the sysinternals pstools package)

 

psshutdown -o \\computername

 

although i've found that this won't work if they have locked the machine

Edited March 30, 2009 by cromertech
more info

[mikeymike]

If you prefer to use the GUI, right click your desktop and choose New > Shortcut. Enter the following path exactly:

 

c:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -i

 

Name the shortcut whatever you like. Now double click the shortcut and the rest should be self explanatory

 

thank you mike,

i created the shortcut and went through everything but when finally tell it to restart or whatever nothing happens??

[SpuffMonkey]

You can use LimitLogon for this too - if you have it installed.

[plexer]

If you want to log someone off can you not use the logoff command?

 

If you need to do it remotely use psexec or something to do that?

 

Ben

[Michael]

i created the shortcut and went through everything but when finally tell it to restart or whatever nothing happens??

 

Do you have the Windows Firewall enabled?

[zag]

We use Italc here to log off students and also monitor what they are doing.

 

Great piece of open source software.