Hi there,
I oversee a small test facility of about 200 systems running a mix of XP, Vista and Win 7. They are all on the same Lan / subnet and all configure with a static ip address.
What i want to achieve is a batch shut down and restart of these systems from a central workstation which is also on the same lan.
Can someone point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Only built-in command which can be found on all those three OS's I can think of is shutdown -i, which opens the remote shutdown dialog:
Have you tried this?
Kari
Hey Kari,
I tried your suggestion and was able to get it working for my XP pro Sp3 systems. However I have had no luck with the Vista Home Basic and Win 7 home premium systems. Do you think that because my Vista and Win 7 systems are not the professional versions may be why the shutdown command is not working?
I have to check this. I have both Vistas and Sevens running at home, but all Ultimates and a Seven enterprise, so I can not test it myself.
I ask some fellow geeks, posting back when I know.
Kari
I can confirm from experience that the command does work on Vista home Premium.
One thing you may need to ensure is that the user is an admin and has an account on all systems, assuming a non domain environment when I believe that a domain admin account may be required.
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You may also need to enable WMI remote management, this can be achived with the following ...
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="windows management instrumentation (WMI)" new enable=Yes
Also open any ports in the firewall relating to remote management using the advanced firewall options
I have disable windows firewall all together and set up an admin account on all remote workstations with the same credentials as that used on the control workstation. When I run :
shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00 -m \\192.168.12.xxx
response : the network path was not found
The spec for the command gives the parameter as \\computername rather than IP address - I always used the \\computername so it maybe that the IP is not supported although this would be unusual.
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