What about Windows 7?
Those of you who are familiar with this idle timer policy setting are probably screaming at the page right now, because you know that this particular setting is actually new starting with Windows 8 clients, and that it will not work on Windows 7 machines. While most settings that you configure via Group Policy will be able to successfully apply no matter what the endpoint operating system, there are some new features introduced with each new OS rollout, and as such there are specific settings crafted into Group Policy that are also new as of each new iteration of Windows. That is true of this machine inactivity limit policy. I chose a tricky one like this on purpose, to showcase that you always want to test, test, and ...
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