Or pskill the winlogon process. Instant blue-screen 2008/6/18 Peter van Houten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Slightly OT but useful in a remote situation nevertheless, is the ability > to reboot a system that refuses to follow the normal shutdown/reboot > procedure. On numerous occasions, a remote system will not even obey a > "shutdown -r -t xx" command. If one runs Task Manager, sorts the running > processes' Image Name alphabetically and kills the first svchost.exe running > under the Network Service user, the system will reboot in 60 seconds every > time. > > On the 18/06/2008 16:56, Tim Vander Kooi wrote the following: > >> I attended a session in Orlando on remote management, and the things you >> can do with WinRM and WinRS were really awesome. You may want to do a quick >> search on those. There's a lot on MSDN and TechNet regarding both. >> >> Tim >> >> *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:46 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* RE: View processes running on a remote PC in realtime >> >> Useful to know about running remote commands with psexec. Will come in >> handy for the odd occasion when I need to silently roll out patches on a >> case by case basis, and I'm sure it will prove to be very useful for other >> scenarios over time. Thanks for taking the time to respond. >> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:43 AM, James Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> Another interesting use of pstools is "psexec \\computername cmd" which >> will open you a remote command prompt and keep it open until you exit in the >> normal fashion. Much easier than telnetting. Psexec is probably the most >> useful tool in the suite. >> >> 2008/6/18 cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: >> >> Thanks James - I expect pstools will automate the telnet step below but >> after posting found an alternative approach to find out what processes are >> running in "near enough" realtime.... >> >> 1. Start telnet on remote computer via computer management >> 2. Connect to telnet server from client >> 3. Run "tasklist /v" every 10 seconds or so to gauge what processes are >> taking up system resource >> >> Will give pstools a shot though - the above workaround is too overkill for >> my liking... >> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:15 AM, James Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> pslist (with or without the -s switch) will do this on a local or remote >> machine >> >> Download pstools from MS to get it >> >> 2008/6/18 cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: >> >> Hello all, >> I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to view (in realtime) >> processes running on a remote XP SP2 desktop, i.e. to gauge CPU >> utilisation, etc. >> Although "tasklist /s computername" tells me WHAT processes are >> currently running (along with memory usage), I'd like a similar >> view, only in realtime. >> I'm aware I could simply remote control the PC in question and use >> Task Manager to view running processes but the user has left their >> desktop locked and due to internal security policy I'm not >> authorised to reset the user's password without contacting the user >> first. >> >> To put into context the above requirement, I'm simply trying to >> ascertain if any applications are running within the user's logon >> session before I log 'em out to install some software. >> >> Hope that all makes sense. Apologies if I haven't explained clearly. >> >> Any advice would be much appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> - JS >> >> Pslist will do this, >> >> Pslist \\servername <file:///\\servername> –s is all you need. >> >> Z >> >> Edward E. Ziots >> Network Engineer >> Lifespan Organization >> MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA >> Phone: 401-639-3505 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> *From:* cs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:36 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: View processes running on a remote PC in realtime >> > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
