Hello all, I've been googling and googling this. Apparently I can't hit the right search terms, because I keep getting what I don't want. In the shop I support, most folks work from home, using RDP and a VPN to access their machine in the office. A handful of them, when trying to restart their office machine from RDP, don't get the shutdown/restart/logoff option. All they get is "disconnect". How in the world can I make it so this end user can reboot on demand?
From your screenshot you have the "Power" icon. When you click that you "should" have "Sleep", "Shutdown", or "Restart" options pop up, no?. Unless you have some GPO settings locking you down. or CMD prompt: shutdown /r /t 5 (<- or any other value after the /t switch to give you a delay) or PowerShell: Restart-Computer -force
Usually, Shutdown/Reboot won't show during an RDP session, for preventing to lock yourself out. Using shutdown -r or shutdown -s will get around that. But make sure it will come up fine after that.
Control-alt-end shoud bring up the Windows Security screen over RDP. From there (unless forbidden by policy) you should have all the usual options (lock, sign out, change password...) including shutdown and reboot.
Guys really Alt+F4 is too simple for you? No need to resort to other "exotic" methods if not really forced to
Group Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar > Remove and prevent access to the Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate commands You can probably push this policy from your DC, so the user doesn't have to do anything.