Remote Shutdown and Restart Software

fommy

Hello,

I am looking into the best software to automatically shutdown and startup pc's at remote sites.

Has anyone got any good recommendations? I have downloaded a few but none seem that good.

Cheers,

Matt

brad-

batch file
shutdown -r -f -t 15

will that work?

Silver Bullet

Start > Run > shutdown -i

aordal

Or my favorite.

shutdown /m \\computername /f /r /t 00


You can run that from your machine as long as both are on the network. Or you can use it to restart your coworker's computers, which is fun.

blargoe

It doesn't get easier than shutdown -i, if you need a gui. I'd bet that most of the apps you downloaded probably do exactly the same thing, or actually USE shutdown.exe to shut down the computers.

Claymoore

Shutdown is easy with shutdown.exe at the command line. You can even script it so that you can restart multiple PCs with one cmd script.

Startup is more work, and your PC NICs will have to support Wake-On-Lan (even if its supported it may be disabled in the BIOS). An easy and free product that will both shut down and remotely start PCs is GPUpdate from SpecOps Software (http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/). This adds extensions to ADUC that allow you to perform additional administrative functions by right-clicking the object or objects.

HeroPsycho

To more easily do this with multiple computers, you can also check out PSShutdown from the excellent and free PSTools.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897541.aspx

Use @listfile.txt to shutdown a group of computers in a listfile. Pretty useful.

Of course, you could always do this in PowerShell...

$servers = get-content listfile.txt
$servers | foreach-object {shutdown /m \\'$_' -f}

(Haven't tried that specifically,but it should be something like that).