Scenario: Employees in an organization work two separate shifts and use pooled-random Desktop OS machines. When employees working at night end their shift, they disconnect from their Desktop OS machin

The 'Reboot Schedule' feature in Citrix Studio schedules timed periodic reboots and is not triggered by individual user disconnect events.

Setting 'When Disconnected' to Suspend keeps the machine in a suspended state still associated with the prior session, preventing it from being reassigned to a new day-shift user.

In Citrix Delivery Group power management settings, the 'When Disconnected' action can be set to Shutdown so that machines power off as soon as a user disconnects. For pooled-random desktops, a shutdown triggers a revert to the clean baseline state and returns the machine to the available pool. Applying this setting during peak hours ensures that machines disconnected by the night shift do not remain allocated and are ready for day-shift users to claim.

Active Directory Group Policy cannot respond to Citrix session disconnect events or manage VDI power states in a Citrix-aware manner.