script to reboot computers at night

20 Dec

Right, and if you wanted to do this through GP, you could create a startup
script batch file that calls shutdown.exe from an AT command line:

at 20:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su “shutdown /r /f”

Note that this will create a new scheduler job every time it runs, so you
probably only want it in your startup script for a day or two. Otherwise you
could preface it with the following command:

http://www.ms-news.net/f3707/grrr-how-do-i-get-150-systems-reboot-3am-every-night-through-gpo-1850712.html

at 1 /d
at 20:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su “shutdown /r /f”

Note that this assumes that the current job id is always 1, which may not be
the case.


Darren Mar-Elia
MS-MVP-Windows Server–Group Policy

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