We have been using NightWatchman and Wakeup from 1E for years to shutdown our Windows workstations and start them up to run software distributions. It saves electricity (and thus money) and it improves software deployment results. But I think we are all starting to feel the pressure to provide instant on right where I left off capabilities. We've all gotten used to this on our smart phones and tablets and if natural that we would want the same feature on our work PCs.
Scott Ewing From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kehl, Reto Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 6:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: PC Restarts I shutdown.exe all PCs every night at 22:00 and wake them up in the early morning for hinv/sinv Additionally I have an advertisement that runs chkdsk /f where SCCM reboots every Friday Sometimes there are PCs hanging on shutdown and users need to power off but all in all it helps a lot to have healthy PCs Regards, Reto From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff Sent: Freitag, 31. Mai 2013 19:44 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: PC Restarts We are pretty lucky, employees here are required to reboot nightly. It definitely helps deployments, patching, etc. Daniel Ratliff From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Mosby Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 1:37 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: PC Restarts It never ceases to amaze me how people actually believe what they are doing is so important that they can't take the time to reboot their computer long enough to make it more secure. Just baffles me Thanks, Chris From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> On Behalf Of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 11:32 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: PC Restarts There is always this http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/tom_watson/archive/2010/01/04/reboot-nag-using-autoit.aspx From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Day Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 12:19 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] PC Restarts Hi I am sure it's not unique to this organisation that we have a whole bunch of people who are very reluctant to log-off, and even more reluctant to restart their PC. I proposed that we get the firms agreement for a monthly scheduled re-start for some well publicised day. My hope was that after a month or two it would become ingrained in everyone's memory and would become an accepted part of the IT maintenance calendar. I suggested the 3rd Friday of each month, but in truth the day does not matter too much, it's more about getting the concept accepted. My proposal was not accepted but what was acceptable is a window of a week where the user must accept a re-start. So I guess I start asking them on the Monday and they get to delay it for 24 hours, I ask again on the Tuesday etc. etc. Eventually the grace window will expire and the re-start will be forced upon them. The re-start is always going to be in the maintenance window 2am to 7am. Anyone tried this, been there got the medal, or got any alternative solutions. Also interested to hear of any utilities which might offer this type of facility. Many thanks Phil This email (including any attachments), is confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee(s). 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