
Then, click OK to shut down your PC immediately. To shut down without installing updates, select Shut down from the drop-down list. Then, press Alt+F4 to access the Shut Down Windows dialog box. To do it, add a user account to the Force shutdown from a remote system policy in the same GPO section ( User Rights Assignment). Here’s the simplest method: make sure the desktop has focus by clicking any empty area of the desktop or pressing Windows+D on your keyboard. You can also allow some users to restart your Windows Server remotely using the shutdown command without granting them local administrator privileges or the right to log on to your server using RDP. Allow Remote Shutdown/Restart without Admin Permissions In the domain Group Policy editor ( gpmc.msc), create a new policy Prevent_Shutdown, configure the parameters of your “Shut down the system” policy according to your requirements and assign it to the OU containing computers or servers. In the same way you can prevent (or allow) shutdown/reboot for all computers in the specific OU of your Active Directory domain using the domain policy. In this case, just remove Users group from Shut down the system local policy. Or, vice versa, you want to prevent users of desktop Windows 10 editions from restarting the computer that fulfills some server function. You can also grant the permissions to start/stop/restart the services for non-admin users.
