Restarting machines through GP

[Firas]

Hi,
I want to force a scheduled restart over all computers and servers connected to the network through GP; any idea how to do that?

[Stock]

My first thought was to use a script and then create a GPO to enforce it. Problem is that scripts only apply at startup, logon, logoff and shutdown. Great Idea! A shutdown script that shuts us down.

I guess if you wanted to not do this with a GPO you could script out the shutdown.exe command and run this as a scheduled task on a server.

Just hit a command prompt in Windows XP or Server 2003 and type "shutdown /?" to see the syntaxt for the command. Put that into a text file, rename the file to something.bat and use task scheduler to launch it when you want it to run.

Probably other ways to do this, but that is one I guess.