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Restrict Users to Certain Computers

Limiting a user to certain logon workstations is a common administrative task. Doing this is a very repetitive  if you have to restrict users to certain computers. Even at that, Microsoft limits you to only 64 workstations when you are entering them in using the GUI. Although you can add additional computers in the AD attribute editor, it is still a huge (comma separated) pain!
To understand the problem, we will do it manually once. Open the user’s properties, go to the Account tab then click “Log on To”. Then add each computer one at a time. It will not take wildcards.



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