Curtis: It was never my intention to give them a choice, shutdown is way after school is over.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, McKay, Curtis <cmc...@bths201.org> wrote: > He wants to give users the option to cancel though. Shutdown.exe can’t do > that. > > > > I rolled out poweroff to TRY to accomplish this and here is the one glitch: > > If you put poweroff in the startup folder so it’s started as the user when > they login they will get the option to cancel the shutdown. If it’s started > as a service or other user, the user will not get the option to cancel. Of > course, if it’s just in the startup folder then it won’t run and won’t > shutdown machines that are not logged in. In the end, I installed it via > group policy to shut the machines down at 11pm. It won’t prompt, but nobody > is here generally that late. > > > > http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.html > > > > > > Curtis McKay > > Network Administrator > > Belleville Township High School District 201 > > cmc...@bths201.org > > > > From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org > [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Bendorf > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:30 AM > To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List > Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] shutdown script > > > > PsTools > > > > --Michael T. Bendorf-- > Technology Administrator > A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 > > 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 > > DID #: 217.476.6019 > Cellular: 217.306.6824 > > "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during > your lectures so that I do not need you any more." > > A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for > others. > > "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous > flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using > poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." > > - Alan Kay > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Smeltzer, Matt <msmelt...@hrsb.ns.ca> > wrote: > > Anyone have a script or run by or have any ideas how I can pump a script out > to machines listed in txt file to shut them down everyday at 6pm… this > script can run from a master computer and run everynight that is fine.. but > it has to give the option to cancel or to shutdown only the specified > computers at 6pm… > > > > Thanks > > > > Matt > > > > > > -------------------------------------------- > > Matt Smeltzer - CNA 5.1, Net+ > > Network Specialist > > Halifax Regional School Board > > msmelt...@hrsb.ns.ca > > (902) 464-2000 ext 2280 > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > -- Daniel E. Ragen District Technology Coordinator Dupo CUSD 196 600 Louisa Ave Dupo, IL 62239 Phone - 618-286-3214 x2141 dra...@dupo.stclair.k12.il.us ''Life's tough ... it's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
