Schedule nightly reboot?

#1 tear

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Posted 15 October 2003 - 09:52 PM

How can I schedule my 2003 server machine to reboot every night at a certain time?

#2 genaldar

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Posted 15 October 2003 - 10:29 PM

One of the media players I use has an alarm you can set to exit windows. It's called jetaudio, in case your wondering.

btw I'm sure someone knows of a script or something, I just thought I'd throw it out there in case it takes a while

#3 DS3Circuit

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Posted 16 October 2003 - 06:14 AM

http://www.leinensoft.com/software/command.htm

You could always schedule one of these apps. Whats the reason for this request?

You may also have to disable the "modififed" 2003 shutdown screen with a GPO.

#4 ross_aveling

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Posted 16 October 2003 - 11:43 AM

Doesn't Windows Server 2003 have the shutdown.exe ditty that's also included with XP?

You should be able to create a scheduled task to run it at a specified time.

I couldn't find an article for Windows 2003 on the MSKB but here is one for Windows 2000. It should be a similar exercise.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317371&Product=win2000

#5 mezron

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Posted 16 October 2003 - 05:14 PM

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http://www.leinensof...are/command.htm

You could always schedule one of these apps. Whats the reason for this request?

You may also have to disable the "modififed" 2003 shutdown screen with a GPO.

Hey thanks! There are a few handy tools there

I found a tool that I could use to automatically reboot Win98 machines a few years ago but it wasn't as straight forward as these.

I'm a little curious about the need to reboot a server daily myself though. That just seems like asking for trouble.