Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Enabling the "Shut Down" option in Windows Server 2003

Once again I spent way too long trying to figure out how to allow my non-administrator user the ability to shutdown windows. Strangely enough Google was of little help. I guess the terms "shutdown", "enable", "user", "dialog" are too vague?

By default a normal user only has log off username in the list of options when you hit shutdown from the start menu. Just so I don't have to search for this again:

Run Administraive Tools/Local Security Settings
Navigate to:
Security Settings/
Local Policies/
User Rights Assignment/

Add the user/group in question to "Shut down the system".

Also, just in case others fall into the same trap, here's some food for the GoogleBots:
"shutdown windows" dialog "log off" enable
"shutdown windows" dialog "log off" allow
"shutdown windows" dialog "only log off"
"shutdown windows" dialog "shut down missing"
"shutdown windows" dialog missing
"shut down windows" dialog missing
"shutdown privilege" "windows 2003"
"shutdown privilege" "windows server 2003"
enable shutdown windows server 2003

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Found this with Google search terms: allow shutdown windows server 2003
:)

udrrek said...

Thanks a ton man. Although i found this using some other website but couldnt get the shut down to happen. Life saver.

Mchl said...

Google got it at:
'windows server user shutdown privilege'

thanks a lot!