scheduled shutdown of PC's on my network

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bstuart177

Hi All,

I am looking to shut down all the PC's on my ntwork (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.
 
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Bob I

Scheduled tasks is one way. remote shutdown is another, remote start up
will require wake on lan, or timed wakeup to be set in the BIOS
 
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Pegasus \(MVP\)

Hi All,

I am looking to shut down all the PCs on my ntwork (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.
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Whichever method you use, keep in mind that sooner or later someone will
work late. You need to provide for a mechanism that will not shut down his
machine, e.g. while he's having a late snack in the company canteen with a
few hours of unsaved work on his PC.
 
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bstuart177

Thants an excellent point.....I have been looking at nightwatchman
which saves user data before the PC is shutdown which is very handy.
 
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tek01

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If you plan on shutting down every night at a scheduled time, you just need to notify the employees that a scheduled shutdown is going to take place every night so all employees will have been warned.

[email protected] said:
Hi All,

I am looking to shut down all the PC's on my ntwork (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.
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