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Lord Chaos · 05-04-2008, 12:12 PM

I am kinda new to helping out with some hardware issues at a site, but we were talking about something they wanted to do with the domain controller, but couldn't quite figure out how to.

Its a 2003 Server and all the other machines on the network are clients and gets their setup from the server. (yeah I know, not good at explaining it since I have extremely limited experience with domains and domain controllers), but they are often just left on running all night and draining power.

Is there any way to set up the domain controller to

1. Send out a message to all computers on the network thats part of the domain at a set time (like "All computers will be shut down in 10 minutes, please save your work and log off")

2. Send a shutdown command to all computers on the domain making them shut down at a certain time of the day every day. (they should only shut down and not be kept down, its ok that people start the machine up again if they really need to use it)

If possible, could anyone let me know what to set up to make this happen? I would very much appreciate it.

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Lord Chaos Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 125 OS: WindowsXP	[SOLVED] How do you get a domain controller to shut down clients? I am kinda new to helping out with some hardware issues at a site, but we were talking about something they wanted to do with the domain controller, but couldn't quite figure out how to. Its a 2003 Server and all the other machines on the network are clients and gets their setup from the server. (yeah I know, not good at explaining it since I have extremely limited experience with domains and domain controllers), but they are often just left on running all night and draining power. Is there any way to set up the domain controller to 1. Send out a message to all computers on the network thats part of the domain at a set time (like "All computers will be shut down in 10 minutes, please save your work and log off") 2. Send a shutdown command to all computers on the domain making them shut down at a certain time of the day every day. (they should only shut down and not be kept down, its ok that people start the machine up again if they really need to use it) If possible, could anyone let me know what to set up to make this happen? I would very much appreciate it.