Auto reboot client workstation

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Is there any way to set a group policy in active directory to automatically
reboot client workstations? Many staff do not reboot their computers and get
bogged down. Would like to schedule after-hours reboots if at all possible.

Thanks,

Kim

 

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If you use SUS or WSUS you can force a reboot after installation if the
updates required one, alternativley you can use something like shutdown.exe
from the Windows NT resource kit or psshutdown.exe from Sysinternals.com.

I use the latter and have scheduled out of hours reboots of my servers, if
you are careful you can use one machine to fire off remote reboots from a
script (I use a batch file) in sequence. I do this so that only one machine
is rebooting at any time.

Chris

 

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I know how to do shutdown.exe scripting for server reboots. I'm just
wondering if there is a way to do this for clients via active directory so I
don't have to create a separate script for each client or configure it on the
client itself.

Any ideas?

"Chris Dugan" wrote:

> If you use SUS or WSUS you can force a reboot after installation if the
> updates required one, alternativley you can use something like shutdown.exe
> from the Windows NT resource kit or psshutdown.exe from Sysinternals.com.
>
> I use the latter and have scheduled out of hours reboots of my servers, if
> you are careful you can use one machine to fire off remote reboots from a
> script (I use a batch file) in sequence. I do this so that only one machine
> is rebooting at any time.
>
> Chris
>
>
>