Disabling the shutdown event tracker in Windows Server 2003

digitaldive — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:45:00 GMT

Happy new year to all you blog writers and blog readers out there!

I've recently delved into the world of server management. Now as my server is for testing and playing only, it gets a bit frustrating when every time I want to shutdown or restart the server, I have to tell the shutdown event tracker why I'm doing it. So, for your benefit, here is how you turn it off. It's probably worth mentioning that you shouldn't turn it off unless you're sure you don't need to audit shutdown events on your server (in other words, it's probably wise to keep it on for production servers!)

How to do it:

Open the Group Policy Object Editor (Start-->Run-->gpedit.msc)
Navigate to:

Local Computer Policy
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
System

Double click "Display Shutdown Event Tracker"

Click "Disabled"
Click "OK"

Job done.

The Digital DoorMatt : Windows Server 2003

Disabling the shutdown event tracker in Windows Server 2003