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Remote PC Shutdown - by OU - reganlives - 19-09-2021
I know there's quite a few of us that work in IT so thought this would be the best place to ask! What's the best way to initiate an automated shutdown of a machine by OU? There's a number of people that don't shut down their machines so I wanted to put a script or similar into the group policy to initiate a shutdown of any machine still powered up at a certain time of the day.
Thanks
Remote PC Shutdown - by OU - Tonyb - 19-09-2021
I know it can be done but I haven't hot a clue how !
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Remote PC Shutdown - by OU - Rolex - 19-09-2021
take a look at scheduled tasks, certain versions of Windows allow you to setup task to restart machines/servers.
Remote PC Shutdown - by OU - reganlives - 20-09-2021
Rolex take a look at scheduled tasks, certain versions of Windows allow you to setup task to restart machines/servers.
That's what I ended up trying in the end. Set up a scheduled task with the shutdown command and some different switches. Going to do some testing on it today.
Remote PC Shutdown - by OU - toxo - 20-09-2021
Surely a query of AD by OU, to get a list of machine names, then just running shutdown -m \\computername -t 0 -s as domain or enterprise admin would do it?
Remote PC Shutdown - by OU - DaveEdin - 20-09-2021
Got to watch out for the risk that you'll lose unsaved work people have left open though...
Remote PC Shutdown - by OU - Tonyb - 20-09-2021
Well they'll only lose it once.........
Remote PC Shutdown - by OU - reganlives - 20-09-2021
Already taken that into account!
I may chance the policy to a hibernate one instead of shutdown...not had a chance to look into it again yet today as looking into data issues on our database now but will get back to it on Monday I hope.