You can shutdown or reboot a remote computer using Powers-shell. To shutdown the computer, use
Stope-Computer cmdlet or use
Restart cmdlet to restart the computer.
The command to shutdown a computer in Power-shell is:
Stop-Computer - Shuts down the current computer
Stop-Computer -computername PC1 - Shuts down a remote computer named "Pc1"
The command to restart a computer in Power-shell is:
Restart-Computer - Restart the current computer
Restart-Computer -computername PC1 - Restarts a remote computer named "Pc1"
Command to shutdown multiple computers: - You can store multiple computers in a variable and shutdown them down all at once.
$comps ="pc1, pc2, server1, server2"
Stop-Computer -computername $comps -force
You can also schedule a power shell script to shutdown computers using Windows Task Scheduler.
To do this:
1. Put the computer names in text file. We will call the text file reboots.txt in this example and save it under c: drive.
2. Create another text file and save it as
reboots.ps1.
3. Put this command in the reboots.ps1 file
Stop-Computer -ComputerName (get-content c:
eboot.txt) -Force
4. Schedule
reboots.ps1 file to run using
Windows Task Scheduler.
