Automated Log Off - Windows 7/8

What is your goal here?
There are a couple of different ways to go about this.
One way is, If you set up a policy for the windows 7 boxes to force log off after the user's hours expire (not using the right words here yet) and then update their AD settings so their login times are not between midnight and 1am. That will force the user to be logged out.
Another way is to create a user startup script that will wait in the background until a certain time of day. Once that TOD is reached the vbscript will launch the shutdown.exe /l command. This way the shutdown command is only run when a user is logged in.
Thirdly, create a scheduled task to run the shutdown /l as the current logged in user at 11:59p.

Hi,
I'd like to be able to log all users out of their domain connected PCs every night around midnight.
I've tried creating a group policy to run shutdown.exe /l, however when the task runs it shows "The operation being requested was not performed because the user has not logged on to hte network".
Is there a easier way to log users that are a member of an Active Directory group off every night?
Thanks
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