Unfortunately, it didn’t work exactly as I had anticipated. As soon as the number of days passed for the password to expire, the user is FORCED to change the password even with the “user cannot change password” option checked. It did keep checking the “have user change password on next login” box, and it didn’t like me unchecking it.

So, back to the drawing board, I suppose. It seems like it should work, though.

Thanks for idea, though.
Becky

My boss was able to come up with a very clever alternative. He created a Scheduled task to run on a specific date (say, the day after the laptop should have been returned) that would launch a batch file with a Shutdown command every 5 minutes, all day every day until the laptop is returned. He made the shutdown message read “Please return the laptop”. It accomplishes the same goal, so we’re happy. Of course, he just borrowed a laptop yesterday and we figured this out today, so it may be awhile before we can try it again!
Here’s the command we used: [indent]

shutdown -s -t 10 -c “Please return the laptop”

[/indent] Thanks for the help
Becky

My boss was able to come up with a very clever alternative. He created a Scheduled task to run on a specific date (say, the day after the laptop should have been returned) that would launch a batch file with a Shutdown command every 5 minutes, all day every day until the laptop is returned. He made the shutdown message read “Please return the laptop”. It accomplishes the same goal, so we’re happy. Of course, he just borrowed a laptop yesterday and we figured this out today, so it may be awhile before we can try it again!
Here’s the command we used: [indent]

shutdown -s -t 10 -c “Please return the laptop”

[/indent] Thanks for the help
Becky

They just log on locally to the laptops, so there’s no network involved. However, their main goal is to log on to Citrix to connect to our work network. I don’t think I can disable their Citrix account without locking thier regular network account, can I?

Thanks,
Becky

They just log on locally to the laptops, so there’s no network involved. However, their main goal is to log on to Citrix to connect to our work network. I don’t think I can disable their Citrix account without locking thier regular network account, can I?

Thanks,
Becky

Unfortunately, it didn’t work exactly as I had anticipated. As soon as the number of days passed for the password to expire, the user is FORCED to change the password even with the “user cannot change password” option checked. It did keep checking the “have user change password on next login” box, and it didn’t like me unchecking it.

So, back to the drawing board, I suppose. It seems like it should work, though.

Thanks for idea, though.
Becky