Group policy to shutdown PC at certain time

eidolon · 13 Mar 2007 at 13:17

Some of the users at work forget to switch their PC off on a night so I'd like to force a shutdown. I was thinking of doing this via a group policy, anyone know how this would be done?

Cheers

Jimbo · 13 Mar 2007 at 13:23

I use this and it works great on xp/vista...

http://www.konradp.com/products/auto_shutdown/

I dont know how to do it over groups of machines, but someone else might. Just saying how good it is.

To use select time of shutdown, click shutdown/force and minimize.

bledd · 13 Mar 2007 at 13:37

google pstools

use "psshutdown -s"

eidolon · 13 Mar 2007 at 13:50

bledd. said:
google pstools

use "psshutdown -s"

That looks like what I'm looking for, cheers.

Zefan · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:16

bledd and eidolon, your sigs are too big. 20KB maximum.

The_KiD · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:31

Zefan said:
bledd and eidolon, your sigs are too big. 20KB maximum.

oh noe's it's the signature police!!! Run for it marty!!

bledd · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:35

ta, i'll fix it later

Zefan · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:36

bledd. said:
ta, i'll fix it later

<3 that new one

bledd · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:52

yours is all jpeg blurry

-thanks for the heads up, had my sig removed not so long ago, because i had my msn notifier thing in there

Zefan · 13 Mar 2007 at 17:12

bledd. said:
yours is all jpeg blurry

I did it ages ago when I was an image nub

I would change it but I can't find the original picture >_<

Dr_Evil · 13 Mar 2007 at 17:14

just use a batch file to run the xp command "shutdown.exe" on the server. You can force client machines to shut down with this. Scheduled the batch file to run in the evening.

Z:\>shutdown /?
Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]
No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown
u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)