Configuring ActiveExit

The are two ways of changing the settings of ActiveExit: using its configuration utility or using the Group Policy.

You can use either method (or both of them), the end result is essentially the same. You may find the configuration utility more convenient if you need to use ActiveExit on only a few computers. If, however, you have a large number of computers to install and configure ActiveExit on, then the Group Policy can help automate the configuration of such computers.

If you do set up the Group Policy to manage ActiveExit, you can still run the configuration utility, to check the effective settings and the status of ActiveExit. You can also make quick changes to the settings, however you should remember that such changes may revert back to the previous values during the next Group Policy update.

While setting up Active Exit, it's important to keep in mind that its settings apply to the whole computer, not to the individual user accounts. It means, for example, that you cannot set up different timeout values for different users: all user sessions processed by ActiveExit would get the same timeout. You can, however, specify which users or user groups should or should not be processed by ActiveExit.