Reboot all Computers in Domain?

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Is it possible to reboot all client computers in a 2000/2003 domain from a
group policy or something? I have to manually reboot them tonight after a
software push, and not sure how to do it. thanks.
 
Jared Bassett said:
Is it possible to reboot all client computers in a 2000/2003 domain from a
group policy or something? I have to manually reboot them tonight after a
software push, and not sure how to do it. thanks.
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Use shutdown.exe. It lets you specify which computer
you wish to shut down. Shutdown.exe comes with the
Win2000 Resource Kit. PSShutdown.exe from
www.sysinternals.com might offer similar facilities.
 
The W2K resource kit has ShutGUI.exe that will let you quickly bat through
each of the computer one at a time, but if you are using XP or 2003 server
you can run "shutdown -i " that will bring up a GUI where you can add a
bunch of computers at a time. I don't know if there is a limit.
 
Yeah. PsShutdown has a wild card switch. The -r will do a reboot instead of
shutdown. --- Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml

Perform the command on the remote computer or computers specified. If you
omit the computer name the command runs on the local system, and if you
specify a wildcard (\\*), the command runs on all computers in the current
domain.
 
Remember you force and such switches.

It is really irritating to think you did it
and find some dialog box held one of
them open.

The other posters gave you the good tools,
shutdown and psshutdown (plus ShutGUI).

On Win2003 there is a built-in shutdown
too.
 
Steven L Umbach said:
Yeah. PsShutdown has a wild card switch. The -r will do a reboot instead
of shutdown. --- Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml

Perform the command on the remote computer or computers specified. If
you omit the computer name the command runs on the local system, and if
you specify a wildcard (\\*), the command runs on all computers in the
current domain.
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*Including Servers* Be careful using the wildcard.
 
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