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Schedule a Reboot

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Adam Ruth

Is there a way to schedule a reboot for a group of computers via Inventory or Deploy? i've got pro for both and I see options to perform a reboot but it displays the timer on the computer and I don't want it to. Basically I want to be able to schedule a reboot for midnight for an entire OU but I really don't want to have to write a script to do it via a scheduled task or something like that.

 

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    Adam Ruth

    You can do what you want using a command action in the Installer, which executes the shutdown.exe command included in Windows. I've created an example and attached it.

    You don't want to reduce the time-out to less than about 15 seconds or so to allow for the deployment to finish. If the computer reboots before PDQ Deploy can do its clean up then you will get an error reported in the deployment, even though it succeeds.

     

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    Marcel Lipovsky

    Here is mine. The dofference is in additional parameters.

    -t x < where x is the time in second the reboot will be executed
    -f < enforce closing of application, else it can happen that the computer stays hanging and waiting for user input

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    Justin Greer

    Is it possible to have a cancel option when the box appears regarding the restart?

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