Windows 2008 R2 SP1 member servers
Windows 2003 SP2 member servers
Windows 2008 DC/AD
i created a group policy to force a restart of all my Win7/WinXP users. i created the policy in OU1 whose members are users and their computers. the policy was created in "User Configuration/Preferences/Control Panel Settings/Scheduled Tasks" to run "c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -r -f".
for the restart policy, the scope is OU1 and the security filtering is "Authenticated Users". i use my domain admin account as the username to enforce the scheduled restart thinking that some users won't have enough permissions to run the shutdown command.
when the scheduled time came to restart, i found that Windows 2003 servers also restarted! although they belong to OU2 they also received the group policy for the restart.
now i'm wondering why the group policy happened that way. is it because when i use "Authenticated Users" plus my domain admin account for the group policy scheduled restart it followed where i am logged in (even though idle)?
to add, on my servers i login with the same domain admin account and sometimes don't properly logoff. i just leave the RDP session idle.