Re: Scheduled Shutdown with GP

A scheduled task only needs to be defined once, not repeatedly.
The AT command is one means of defining a scheduled task.
Login scripts would not have sufficient rights for this unless an
admin had logged in, a startup script would have sufficient rights,
but again, one really only needs to define the task once.

<v8killah03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'd like to shutdown a few PCs using Group Policy at a specified time
without my intervention. More specifically, I'd like them shutdown at
4:30pm each day. I've read about the AT command, using shutdown.exe,
and running it as a log on script, but am under the impression that
this won't work on XP PCs. I'm open to any and all suggestions to get
this working via Group Policy. There's also the option of scheduling a
task, pushed out by GP, to run shutdown.exe if the AT command won't
work, but I can't
figure that out either.


Thanks very much in advance,


James



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