Spot on, i could use gazillion of different ways for takeover logoff, but i am a believer in stealth administration.

The script is basically some exploded experiment. The environment i am working in has about 120+ domains all over the world, and most of the data lines are 32k 16k even 8k. besides that 10 helpdeskers and 8 level2 engineers along with 3 service managemnet people have to share a single BISDN line to the main network...

i don't know how many of you have ever tried to work across these types of lines but i can assure you your patience is tested to the MAX. So because there is no proper implementation of WINS nor DNS (don't ask me why, you know large company politics) we need a way of managing all these machines with the least possible amount of user interaction.

it all started out as a script from a colleague that checks for VNC installation, if so it cracks the password from the registry and starts a VNC session (all based on just ip input) otherwise it installs VNC and starts the session.

From there i took over and implemented RCMD in the script, then some basic information gathering, net send, removal of certain applications, map drive, reboot, even built in nameresolving using selfadministered list of servers etc etc.

Real multifunctional tool for helpdesk purposes giving us the opportunity to do a lot of "underwater" troubleshooting.

The last thing that is nagging me at the moment is the logoff. because sometimes it takes up to 15 mins just to send ctrl alt del and click logoff and ok when using VNC.
This wouldn't even have come up in my mind if the lines weren't so damn slow.

everywhere i look on the internet i see logoff .exe etc and posts that it cannot be done remotely but i am still not sure (ther SHOULD be a way shouldn't there ???!?!)

I will post the script as soon as i have the time to strip it from our site specific passwords etc...

Ciao,
MvdW