Automatic Computer Shutdown

[drexen1]

How can I use group policy/active directory to automatically shutdown all of the computers in our network at a specific time every night?

 

[MiniOrganMorgan]

Off the top of my head I can't think of an easy way via GPO. Alternatively you could use the psshutdown
command line tool from Sysinternals and set a scheduled task on one of your servers.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html

 

[Caddey]

You dont need to use a 3rd part app and as far as im awear you can use a GP to set a time to turn off a computer, all GP is used for is to set rules/privlages etc on a computer or user.

Make a simple file and create a schedual on your AD or any server for that matter.

Example File..

ShutDownComps.bat
#############################################

shutdown -s -t 00 -m Computername1
shutdown -s -t 00 -m ComputerName2

##############################################

How Shutdown Works.

-s Shutdown the computer
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort

 

[drexen1]

So, basically you are saying to just create a simple batch file similar to your example file and schedule it to run every night on one of my DCs?

 

[MiniOrganMorgan]

Indeed.

PSShutdown has more funcationality as the MS tool, that was the only reason why I suggested it.