The Windows Shutdown Tracker, or Shutdown Event Tracker, is a feature that many don't need. If you are one of these users, know that this dialogue can be turned off.
Instructions
Step 1
In Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, the OS shutdown monitoring dialog notifies the administrator of events affecting the server's availability.
Step 2
It is more convenient to monitor availability centrally, that is, using logging and redirecting the created directories. Therefore, the dialog for monitoring the OS shutdown process for a specific group of devices or for the entire domain can be disabled using a GPO.
Step 3
Select the option called Disable or Disable for Display Shutdown Event Tracker. This setting is located in the next section of the Group Policy Editor: Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> System.
Step 4
Apply this configuration better to certain groups, for example, to low-priority production servers or development servers. Generally, it is unreasonable to use this policy for the entire domain.
Step 5
It is easier to apply this configuration to individual organizational units in Active Directory. If this seems inconvenient, you can use filtering by security group in order to specify specific computer accounts to which this configuration applies.
Step 6
In this case, create a single top-level GPO and filter device accounts by security group. This allows you to achieve exclusion of critical applications, production servers, some security zones, or systems that must meet some specific requirements.
Step 7
In the case of a disabled tracking dialog, important data about unexpected reboots of the operating system (about the so-called "blue screens of death", or BSOD, including) will still be logged. When the administrator reboots or shuts down the server interactively, the command to restart or shutdown the server is sent, but the unexpected shutdown message is not displayed.
