Disable Screen Lock from an AD Joined PC

Colin Overend 0 Reputation points
2023-05-31T14:35:02.7566667+00:00

Could someone please help with an issue that we seem to be having more and more often?

We have clients with Windows Server 2019 & 2022 domain controller joined devices, and a Group Policy setup to push out for the device to lock after a certain time (think its 900 seconds which is 15mins).

However, we want to exclude one or more devices from getting this group policy and setting them to never lock.

It seems very troublesome to first exclude the device from the group policy of the Domain Controller, and then secondly set locally on the device to never lock or have a high lock time (e.g 8-9 hours).

Any suggestions please guys?

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  1. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2023-05-31T14:43:22.56+00:00

    and a Group Policy setup to push out for the device to lock after a certain time

    Might try moving the computer accounts to an OU and only apply the GPO to that OU.

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  2. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2023-05-31T15:00:21.36+00:00

    Might try 

    gpupdate /force /boot

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