[Unlocking a locked workstation?]

While I have a tremendous amount of leeway regarding the content of the images my company uses, anything which deals with security settings like this application must be reviewed before its deployed. I.e. changes must be controlled. If the senior admin says no to this, as happened with iPhones + Exchange, then its a no go. So basically I have to run some trials and then make a buisness case for this software being purchased.

Keep me in the loop. I am really interested in what they will have to say.

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Has to withstand the trials of change control first, but if its green lighted i'll drop you a message.

What do you mean by "trials of change control"?

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MartyGold, thats pretty much perfect. Cheers

Great, let me know if you go ahead using it. If you are ordering a lot of copies let me know what price they gave you!

[Unlocking a locked workstation?]

As part of my job I have to do desk side support, and a trend I've noticed is people phoning in a problem, locking there workstation and leaving for the secret break room IT staff cannot find. I have domain admin privileges so I can just log a user out, or reset their password and login as a user. What I was wondering was, would it be possible to use my domain admin account to log into a locked user account as the user without disrupting there session. My basic research indicates that this isn't possible, but have I missed something?

There is a third party tool that will allow you to set which users can unlock the system (either closing the session or not). It is called Unlock Administrator and you can find more information about it at Unlock Administrator

I have used it for about a year now and it works as expected.

mArtY