Re: Remote reboot of TS box

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Jay,
I have heard of cases where certain application issues will prevent the shutdown from happening, but I've never heard of a service issue. I would suggest testing the solution in your environment.

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Guy Yardeni



"JayKon" <JayKon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6EC358E6-B816-4D89-A67A-F8FD9D875932@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The 'TSSHUTDN' command should allow you to reboot.

I saw that in the doccumentation, but wasn't sure. Thanks.

I am still a little concerned that the problem with the spoolsv will hang
the shutdown command. Is this a valid concern?



"JayKon" <JayKon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B8ADB5AC-6C4B-4AA9-A836-8336CD9E5375@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Windows Server 2003 (v5.2) SP1
>
> We have a problem on the server with bad print drivers that cause
> spoolsv.exe to hang the system (it is being addressed separately). When > we
> have the problem, if we can stop the print spooler before too much time
> elapsed, we are fine. However, sometimes we can't stop the spooler and
> have
> to reboot.
>
> My problem is twofold. One: no one in operations was available when I
> needed
> to reboot and two: The option to reboot wasn't available in the
> START\Shutdown menu (also not in task manager). I do have Admin on the
> server.
>
> Will "shutdown /r" work for me?
>
> Do I have to worry about the spooler service hang, hanging the reboot
> command?
>
> Is there a way to do a hard kill on the spooler?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>



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