Shutdown button removed and now I cannot get it back

[PreviousPoster]

I use a GPO to remove the shutdown button by creating the gpo and putting the users into a OU. Now I have a user who is no longer associated with that OU but I cannot get the shutdown button to re-appear. I know Jeremy talks about "sticky" settings and this appears to be one of them. I've tried running gpedit on the local machine with no success, does anyone have experience with this?

[PreviousPoster]

Hi,

That policy setting should be a "true" policy (my guess is that you are using "Remove and prevent access to the Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate commands", if not let us know) - not a sticky one. Have you tried running GPUPDATE /FORCE logged on as that particular user?

[PreviousPoster]

Jakob,
Thanks for quick reply, You are correct on the setting and I have not tried the gpupdate /force command on this computer. The users is a traveling user and "plugs" into the network when he is in the building. Next time he is here I will run gpupdate. One question, does running gpedit on this computer have any effect on the policies pulled from the domain when he logged into it. What I am asking is can this be used to reverse any policies (sticky) that have be set through AD.
Bob

[PreviousPoster]

Hi there,

My best guess is that you'll just have to be patient for this policy to "hit" the user. Running "GPUPDATE /FORCE" will make sure that policies are "downloaded and re-applied".

When talking GPEDIT(.msc) which is for the Local Policy (or Local Policies with Vista/2008) any setting put in here will continue to apply, but if there's a conflicting policy setting on SITE, DOMAIN or OU level, the last applied policy settings will win (usually those from domain and OU GPOs). So, if the policy setting is still received from eg. the domain level, that setting will overwrite whatever you have set locally using GPEDIT - so the answer is: No, you cannot "reverse" policy settings using the local policy if the policy is still applied from the site/domain/OUs.