Windows servers repeatedly starts a screen saver after a server has been idle for a specified amount of time. This screen saver can be password protected. You can use Group Policy to enforce this setting for all servers in a domain. Users won’t be able to disable the automatic locking once after configured via group policy. We can specify for how much time server should lock automatically.Below procedure is for domain computers.If you want to implement for any windows xp ,windows 7,windows 8 machines you need to do same settings in your local group policy.You can open group policy with “gpedit.msc” command without quotes.
Click “Start”. Open “Group Policy Management” from administrative tools.
Right Click on Domain and click “Create and link a GPO Here”. Give name of the policy.
Right click on Policy name (In my case it was “Auto Lock”) and click edit.
We can see “Group Policy Object editor”. Select “User configuration” “administrative template” “control panel” and then “Display”.
Here you need to enable below two options.
- Enable “Password protected the screen saver”
- Enable “Screensaver timeout”
You can configure for how much time do you want to auto lock. In my case it was 300 Seconds.
Go to client machine and run below command to apply the group policy forcefully.
Open command prompt. Type “gpupdate /force” without quote.Log off the machine and login and check after 5 Min. Client machine will automatically lock after 5 Min.
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