Re: restart 230 machines using one cammand?

Waseem wrote:
i have problem, not a big one but a small one.
i have about 230 computers in different locations across the country
and they all connected with each other i mean vlan with private ip
and i want to restart them with one cammand is there any way? and
remember shutdown command wouldnt work there,
coz all machines are at account locked out message when i try to
restart using shutdown command it shutdown everything but that
messages stay there and machines are like half alive.
is there any way to restart them?

shutdown and psshutdown should both work fine.
shutdown has the -f switch. FORCE.

You could also send a logoff to all machines first with the shutdown
command - with the -f as well if you like.
You could use PSEXEC to run the command locally on each machine - as
whatever user you choose.

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