Windows 7 / Networking

Logon Hours Compliance

By default, users are granted permissions to log on to computers at any hour of the day, any day of the week. However, you can modify the properties of a user account to restrict logon hours.

You can change the logon hours. You can access this from Active Directory Users and Computers by right-clicking the user account and selecting Properties. The logon hours have been changed to allow a user to log on only between 5:00 AM and 8:00 PM.

Your account has time restrictions that prevent you from logging on at this time. Please try again later.

Users will not be logged off if the logon time passes, and if they are connected to any network resources, they won't be disconnected. However, they won't be able to make any new connections.

As an example, imagine that logon times for Jasmin are set to 5:00 AM to 8:00 PM. One night she stays late working on a critical report stored on a network share. As the clock ticks past 8:00 PM, she is still able to continue working on the report and save it to the network share. However, if she tries to connect to another network resource, she'll see a message like: The user is not allowed to log on at this time.

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  1. Managing Windows 7 in a Domain
  2. The Domain
  3. What is Wrong with Workgroups
  4. The Domain Concept
  5. Active Directory
  6. Domain Security
  7. Joining a Domain
  8. Windows 7 Offline Domain Join
  9. Browsing the Domain
  10. Searching the Domain
  11. Custom Searches
  12. Assigning Permissions to Domain Members
  13. The Double-Thick Security Trick
  14. Creating a Test Bed
  15. Creating a Domain
  16. Installing Windows Server 2008 on vPC
  17. Configuring a Windows Server 2008 Server
  18. Promoting a Server to a Domain Controller
  19. Joining Windows 7 to a Domain
  20. Authentication vs Authorization
  21. Authentication
  22. Authorization
  23. Built-in Groups
  24. Organizing Users with Groups
  25. Group Scope and Group Type
  26. Creating Users and Groups in a Domain
  27. Using HomeGroup with a Domain-Based Computer
  28. Identifying and Resolving Logon Issues
  29. Hardware vs. Network
  30. Using Cached Credentials
  31. Password Expiration
  32. Determining Logon Context
  33. Logon Hours Compliance
  34. Restricting Computer Access
  35. Time Synchronization
  36. Understanding User Profiles
  37. Standard Profiles
  38. Roaming Profiles
  39. Implementing Roaming Profiles
  40. Mandatory Profiles
  41. Super-Mandatory User Profiles
  42. Modifying the Default User Profile
  43. Configuring Settings with Scripts
  44. Anti-Malware Software
  45. Microsoft Windows 7 Defender
  46. Third-Party Anti-malware Software