Program to log off users once a process ends

[airtimexx2000]

Hi Everyone,

Was wondering if anyone out there is aware of a service within 2003 server or any individual program that will log off a user automatically once a program/process ends.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

[chilifrei64]

are we talking via a Terminal Services session or a console session?

[airtimexx2000]

thanks for the follow up .. we are talking terminal services sessions

[chilifrei64]

now it all depends on what the terminal server is used for.. you can do it a couple of different ways

Open AD users and computers -> navigate to the user -> right click -> properties -> Enviroment Tab -> check the box that says Start the following at logon..

It doesnt say it there.. but once the user closes that program, it will log off the session

The other way you can do it is

start -> run -> tscc.msc -> connections -> Right click on connections -> create new connection -> go through the wizard (do this while NO USERS ARE LOGGED ON) they will get disconnected if you do

once you go through the wizard. right click on the new connection and go to the enviroment tab and choosed Start the following program when the user logs on. and type on your program. you are going to want to put security filtering on this connection otherwise if you try to log on to it as an administrator you wont be able to get to the desktop, it will load the program instead

I had to do this for a Pocket PC based inventory system that logged on via TS. I didnt want them to close down the session cause it would stay logged on for a while and would eat up resources. This fixed it becasue once they hit exit it would log out the user.

Let me know if that works..

[airtimexx2000]

thanks again, I have to wait for a day now to get some downtime and will try it out, will let you know how it goes

[airtimexx2000]

Worked like a charm! Thanks once again for your help

[chilifrei64]

notta problem.. glad i could help