schedule shutdown clients via gpo?

[Simon]

Hi all,

We running a Win 2000 domain with XP sp2 clients.

I have been asked to find a way to shutdown selected clients on a Friday
evening. Is there any way to schedule this through a GPO?

I am considering configuring a script to run shutdown.exe in a batch file
but obviously this offers no way to control the process centrally. Does
anyone know of a better way?

All advice is greatly appreciated. Simon.

 

[Chriss3 [MVP]]

I suggests to use a script that create a scheduled task for shutdown.exe,
scripts samples of this can be found at
www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter

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Regards
Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

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