scheduled shut down of PC's on network

[bstuart177]

Hi All,

I am looking to shut down all the PC's on my network (1500) at a
scheduled time each night so I can reduce running costs and lower our
company carbon footprint. I may even like to start up the PC's in the
morning before users arrive at work...does anyone know some good
software / application that will allow me to acheive this? don't want
to use scripts or batch files...too messy.

Thanks.

Brian.

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello (e-mail address removed),

If you like to reduce cost, why will you buy a software soultion instead
of using a script? We use scripts for scheduled shutdown/reboot and it works
fine without any additional costs.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[Meinolf Weber]

Hello (e-mail address removed),

Remote startup requires a wake on LAN possibility of your machines. Are all
machines aware of this. Personal i would the user let start the machine,
so they are also up and running if the user is really working, reduces costs
also.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[bstuart177]

Hi Meinolf ,

Have you a location of where you obtained this script or did you
create from scratch?

Thanks,

Brian.

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello (e-mail address removed),

This one is for restart the machine at 5AM, if you change "/r" to "/s" it
will shutdown:

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;Create the scheduled task on remote workstation's
if not exist c:\winnt\tasks\at1.job at 05:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su shutdown.exe
/r /t 120 /c "This computer will restart automatically, please close your
open applications. Your Administrator." /f

:Copy the shutdown.exe to remote workstation
if not exist c:\WINNT\system32\shutdown.exe copy "\\domainname\netlogon\shutdown.exe"
"c:\WINNT\system32\shutdown.exe"
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All between the lines copy to "shutdown.cmd" for example and add "shutdown.cmd"
as a startup script to a GPO. The GPO link to the OU where your computers
are located.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[bstuart177]

Hello (e-mail address removed),

This one is for restart the machine at 5AM, if you change "/r" to "/s" it
will shutdown:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------­--------------
;Create the scheduled task on remote workstation's
if not exist c:\winnt\tasks\at1.job at 05:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su shutdown.exe
/r /t 120 /c "This computer will restart automatically, please close your
open applications. Your Administrator." /f

:Copy the shutdown.exe to remote workstation
if not exist c:\WINNT\system32\shutdown.exe copy "\\domainname\netlogon\shutdown.exe"
"c:\WINNT\system32\shutdown.exe"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------­--------------

All between the lines copy to "shutdown.cmd" for example and add "shutdown.cmd"
as a startup script to a GPO. The GPO link to the OU where your computers
are located.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Thanks very much for your input....appreciate it.

Regards,

Brian.