Disabling Shutdown and Restart

Is there a way to disable shutdown but keep restart for the general user
population through GP. Administrators will need the ability to shutdown
while they are logged on to users computers. The computers will also have to
have shutdown disabled at the login prompt but not restart. We have several
tasks running throughout the night and some people just don't listen when
told to leave their computers on.

WongTuckWah
Wed Jul 27 22:31:02 CDT 2005

Using GPO there is an option:

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar >
Remove and prevent access to the Shutdown command.

You can use filtering to exclude administrator from executing this GPO.

HTH.