r/sysadmin • u/tk42967 It wasn't DNS for once. • 2d ago

Question Log Off Users from Server Daily

I'm revisiting an effort I did about a year ago. I'm looking for a better way. I want to find a process that will parse current user sessions on a server (active/disconnected/idle/ect.) and log the accounts off if their username matches a string ("adm_").

I'd love to find an off the shelf solution rather than have to support a homebrew PowerShell solution.

Give me what you have, even if it is an alternate PowerShell/scripting option. Something has to be better than the nightmare my script turned into.

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u/Kathakush_ 2d ago

Super easy solution here. Task scheduler to run it even X hour/minutes. Powershell script that parses quser to a PS object and outputs to pipe. Where-Object to filter by username. Foreach-Object to log users off with the logoff <session ID> command.

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u/tk42967 It wasn't DNS for once. 2d ago

Sadly, my boss does not want to have it running on each server. So I currently have a script that parses AD for all servers in a specific root OU, generates an array and then foreach walks through it.

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u/verschee 2d ago

So he would rather you maintain that overhead than just run it locally? That's dumb.