Scheduling a shut down of the server

[Noip]

Hi all,

anyone has an idea of a way to automatically shutdown a win2k server at a given time thru task schedular or whatever? The "tool" should somewhat be able to close the running programs as well.

Thanks for any input.

 

[Jump1ng]

Microsoft has a tool called shutdown.exe which you can use to schedule shutdowns with.

Have a look at this page for more information

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317371

Looking on that page it seems to you can set it to say yes to all queries and also force it down etc.

 

[Jump1ng]

There is also a command called tsshutdn thats built in to windows 2000/xp computers but doesn't seem to have as many features as shutdown.exe

If you do tsshutdn /? on a command prompt you will get more information about the switches.

 

[NetworkAdmin123]

When going to the MS site it says you have to buy the resource kit to get the shutdown.exe tool. Is there a way to get this tool without having to buy the whole kit?

 

[crobin1]

SysInternals,

http://www.sysinternals.com/,

has a free tool called PsShutdown that should do the trick.

 

[Noip]

Hi I get mine from here:

http://www.budja.com/shutdown/shutdown.exe