Re: HIPPA Security and GPO Objects

From: Danny Sanders (Danny.Sanders_at_NO-SPAMcpcmed.org)
Date: 01/19/05


Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:38:58 -0700

You can use group policy to control when Win 2k and XP client's screensaver
comes on. Pre Win 2k clients will not use group policy. You will have to use
poledit for them.
See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318753

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0552DA6F-A879-4A7D-9BD7-54C0C341B9BC@microsoft.com...
> We have recently upgraded our NT4 domain to 2003 AD and in accordance with
> the Healthcare Information Privacy and Portability Act (HIPPA) we must
> implement some measures to protect data and secure our workstations. One
> item we are tasked with is setting a time out period for logged on
> accounts.
> Users whose workstations have been idle for more than x minutes should be
> automatically logged out. Can this be done with a GPO in and enterprise
> with
> OS platforms from W95 to XPSP2?
>
> Thanking you in advance for your responses,



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