Group Policy: Force lock AND retain screensaver?

[NotSoSimple]

IT Manager rolled out autolock after 1 hour if inactivity. However, the way he did it nuked the users screen saver option. This coupled with them being forced to have a 1 hour inactivity limit (Some users want less time) is causing some waves.

Just curious if there is another way to get GP to auto lock workstations while retaining the screen saver.

 

[aaronearles]

you could schedule a task to run on idle, set the conditions to 1 hour and have it run:

rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

I have not tested this, it's just an idea.

 

[TechieSooner]

Yes, it's a simple group policy setting...

He just needs to set the screen saver option in GP back to Not Configured. Problem solved.