Reflux Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Current I do nightly shutdowns buy using shutdown.exe and deploy it though Altiris. Is there a better way to do this? It becomes a problem when a computer does not WOL correctly and when you turn the computer on the shutdown scripts runs and normal users do not have the privilege to disable it. I was thinking of scheduling a task locally on the computer but I just want to see if you guys have any other ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 How many machines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflux Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 How many machines? Around 800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Can you manage BIOS remotely at all? You could set them all to power up automatically at 0800 weekdays, or in staggered blocks around that time. If your in a AD domain then you an assign a script to shut down via group policy: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/1474241 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflux Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 Nope the computers we use (Dell Optiplex 745) don't have vPro. Also I am not a DA so can't manage gpo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Unpaid Interns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflux Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 Yea but even the local user support specialist doesn't have a DA account. Our Domain Controllers are managed by remotely by IT systems specialists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 To be 'green' the place I work at has implemented a policy that turns off any computer that isn't logged in and hasn't been active for 30 minuets. If some one stays logged in the computers turns off after 1 hour of inactivity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmo Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 hi we wrote a script in AutoIT that shuts down computers in a config file. and also a gui to make the comfig file more friendly with AD. i would give it to you but the guy who wrote it will not give it out (doesnt really believe in free software :)). another thing you might want to look at is the GUI for shutdown.exe. to access it just start --> run, and its "shutdown -i" i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflux Posted March 23, 2009 Author Share Posted March 23, 2009 hi we wrote a script in AutoIT that shuts down computers in a config file. and also a gui to make the comfig file more friendly with AD. i would give it to you but the guy who wrote it will not give it out (doesnt really believe in free software :)). another thing you might want to look at is the GUI for shutdown.exe. to access it just start --> run, and its "shutdown -i" i think The main issue is not really how to shut the computers down but is how to deploy it. Like I said i've been using Altiris Deployment Solution to deploy the shutdown.exe command to all the computers at night. The problem i've been having with that is that everytime when WOL doesn't work the next time a user turns on the computer the shutdown.exe script will run and they don't have the privileges to stop it. I guess ill probably just schedule it as a task on each computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Bump this to the AD people, group policy is made for this task, otherwise hire unpaid interns to do the leg work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will-wtf Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Now this is a predictable question... Automated Startup? My GoogleFu failed me for Toshiba... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 You can set the bios to turn the machines on at a certain time but without vPro and with 800+ machines its a non-starter. Magic packets is your only hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimmer Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Or something really simple... A scheduled task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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