Re: Can i restart a lot of pc's

You might also want to check out SpecOps' GPUpdate tool (http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/). Among other things, it can restart systems from AD Users and Computers.

Darren

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"jdh415s" <jdh415s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:DA85C370-873C-4FAE-958A-34669235C3B5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just created a batch file that does a "shutdown -r -t 60 -m \\ipaddress".
I included all the addresses I needed and set this up to run as a scheduled
task on one of my servers.

"sammy" wrote:

On Aug 24, 8:54 am, "MSExchangeStudent"
<exchangestud...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi
>
> Can i restart a lot of pc's at the same time with a GPO? and how?
>
> or must i use Windows Scheduled Utitlity and schedule a reboot
>
> Craig

I believe you can with the line-mode command, shutdown.
It has a switch for restarting (-r) and a GUI (using -i) that
presumably
allows you to add as many computers as you want to the list to
shutdown.

If that doesn't work, then you could script the shutdown command to
work
on a list of remote hosts



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