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Hi, I'm not an idiot, and I've been working in IT for the part 12 Years, but I'm having a senior moment!. Can anyone tell me how to disable the restart computer notification for non-administrator on a 2k3 server. I'm using WSUS, and group policies are set to download updates, I log on and install them when I have a maintenance window, but the problem I have is that on the Terminal Server, all users get the restart computer notification, not just admins. non-admins don't have restart computer rights, so the only option they can click on is restart later. A few users find this very irratating, as the notification dialog takes the current window focus away from the app they were using. The only GP setting I can find is ' Allow non-administrators to recieve update notifications' which I have set to disabled. But they still recieve restart notifications. How do I turn this off?

We have an ongoing problem which has been brought up on other forums but thought i'd try here in case anyone had a solution. So we're currently having to set our OSD task sequences to ONLY run on Windows 2000 based machines. This prevents the task sequences being advertised on all our machines within windows, but allows us to pxe boot the machines and run optional/mandatory sequences. This is mainly to prevent the icon from springing up in the notification area when a task sequence becomes available. This has worked fine but is not ideal as it causes problems with duplicate records in sccm. This means that if I need software to be distributed to the computers immediately after deployment, I have to run a system discovery for the new computer objects to be dropped into the right collection. Then I have to run a machine policy update. This is all a bit of a backwards way of doing things, not to mention the amount of rejected advertisement data this is collecting. Ideally what we need is for task sequences only to be available in windows to certain users (us) and disabled for everyone else. The other option is to find a way to disable the notification icon on the task bar which pops up if there's an advertisement. Little Jimmy can't run the TS though, as they don't have privileges but it really has to be hidden...just in case. If you're wondering why I don't just install the software during the task sequence it's because our converted Prism packages don't play nice with config manager and usually fail. Any ideas?? Cheers chris

Dear all I was hoping someone can help me out. Does anyone know of a way that you can lock down and hide all the items in the notification tray except the clock and the volume control. So far I can manage to hide it all. But have yet to find a way to allow the volume control too! Any advice is greatly appreciated! Regards Matt

Hi everyone i have windows server SBS2008 and i would like to find a tool that will alert me when an IP Address is leased so is it possible by Microsoft or 3rd party application ?? Many thanks for any help

I've been asked by a friend if I knew of a tray app program which will notify a user of their share usage on a win 2k3r2 server. Does anyone know of such an app?