[gptalk] Re: Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

  • From: "Nelson, Jamie R Contr 72 CS/SCBAF" <Jamie.Nelson.ctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:41:42 -0500

I think I had the same problem with the shutdown command once. Try using 
psshutdown from the Systinternals PSTools suite (now owned by Microsoft).

Regards,
Jamie Nelson

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Ray Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:01 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

Thanks for all the feedback - this is now in place with the revoked log on 
locally permission. I actually tried using a startup script with the below 
command, but although the "Running Startup Scripts" initiates, it doesn't work:

 

shutdown -s -f -t 50 -c "This Machine is not correctly configured for this 
Domain - please contact your IT Department for further assistance"

 

No doubt Windows has something in place that is set to ignore the shutdown 
command during a startup sequence - does anyone know a way around this, is 
there a .vbs alternative?

 

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of bart.schillebeeks@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 12 October 2007 09:59
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

 

What is actually the question. 

 

To disallow workstations being used by anyone except from a certain group of 
administrators , is very easy. 

 

I have a quarentine ou which runs a gpo that screws down almost everything on 
the machine. If any user logs on, the only thing they get is a message saying 
their machine has been quarentined and that they need to contact the helpdesk. 
they don't have the "log on locally right" anymore,  from there on it logs 
itself back of. If an administrator logs on he is granted "log on locally" and 
can administer the machine. 

If moved out of this ou then all is back to normal. 

 

If you mean you completely want to seperate a machine from your network due to 
certain parameters. You will need to wait for NAP (network access protection)  
that is available in Windows 2008 Longhorn. 

There you can disallow network connection to certain vlans based on the health 
of your machine.  

 

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Larry.Trimble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:20 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

How about this for a thought?  Set up a special group in AD (that holds only 
the members that you want to logon to those workstations then setup a GPO up in 
the OU then under "User Rights Assignment\Allow log on locally" allow only that 
group to log on?  This would prevent anyone other than members of that group to 
logon to the workstation.

 

You would need to make sure that you had a GPO that would set "Allow log on 
locally" back to standard when you wanted that workstation active again.

 

If you stacked the GPO's correctly then all you would have to do is to add the 
workstation to the group that applies the "Allow log on locally" special group 
when you wanted to block access and remove it from the applies group when all 
access was allowed..

 

Regards

Larry

 

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Thorbjörn Sjövold
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 09:30
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

 

The problem with any type of solution where the local computer is crippled 
instead of working in AD, is that it is hard to undo it, since GP will not be 
applied regardless where in AD it is moved when the time comes to restore the 
computer again :-).

 

 

 

 

From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: den 11 oktober 2007 16:07
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

 

I suppose there might be a security setting you could set that would make the 
computer unable to talk to the rest of the domain. Something like an SMB 
Signing setting that is incompatible with your servers/DCs? 

 

darren

 

From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Ray Lewis
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:57 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

 

Thanks Thorbjörn,

 

What about an alternative restriction to prevent the machines being able to 
sign on or being issued a token?

 

I've looked at IPSEC solutions but would prefer to steer clear of this method.

 

 

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Thorbjörn Sjövold
Sent: 11 October 2007 09:27
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

 

I do not think there are such a solution available, the problem here would be 
that this would be something that need to run in AD and not on the computers 
where the GP CSEs reside and execute, in theory it might be possible for a 
computer to disable itself from a startupscript, but the other way around it 
tough for obvious reasons :-). The problem is similar to the situation with the 
Password Policy GP setting that actually executes on the Domain Controllers.

 

 I normally prefer using GP compared to "external" solutions, but a workaround 
could be  a small script or program that runs as a scheduled job on a DC that 
does the trick, although you need to take into consideration that there could 
be disabled computers in other OUs for other reasons etc. Also unless you use 
the DirSync control to monitor changes, you will also have to live with a 
polling solution so it the change will not be immediate. 

 

 

Thorbjörn Sjövold

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Ray Lewis
Sent: den 11 oktober 2007 09:38
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Automatic Disabling of AD Computer accounts

 

Hi all...

 

Is there a GPO rule I can tag to an OU that will "automatically" disable the 
computer accounts within it? For example, as soon as a machine is moved into 
that OU, it becomes disabled and cant be re-enabled unless moved.

 

Cheers guys...

 

Ray

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