Windows Powershell Remote Commands Not Working -RPC Server Unavailable

mountaincabbage · 17 Jul 2018

Great! This worked, everything turns off. Many thanks for your help, you've saved me 10 minutes of teamviewer every night :)

Kari · 17 Jul 2018

mountaincabbage said:

Great! This worked, everything turns off. Many thanks for your help, you've saved me 10 minutes of teamviewer every night :)

Nice!

I still do not understand and would like to know why using PowerShell, forcing other computers to shutdown did not work for you. Works perfectly for me, both in workgroup and domain environments.

Kari

mountaincabbage · 17 Jul 2018

I would also like to know this, the downside of the solution at the moment is that changing the shutdown time of all the PC's has to be done one by one.

Unless you have any further ideas on how to fix the issue I was having, I'm happy with this solution!

Cheers,
Sean

Kari · 17 Jul 2018

Don't you have a certain "safe time", a time when it would always be safe to shut down all computers? I mean, if you for instance never need any of computers to be up and running after let's say 23:00, add an hour to be sure and make the task to shut them down at midnight 00:00.

Kari

mountaincabbage · 23 Jul 2018

Hi Kari,

We do, but in Winter we need to keep the PC's on longer, so that does involve changing them one by one, but this is much better than turning them off individually every night.

So everything is running smoothly but there appears to be one glitch, we came in this morning at all the PC's rebooted once after being turned on, even though they had successfully turned off on Friday?

Any ideas why that might happen? Could it be to do with the "If the task fails" restart every 5 minutes?

Thanks,
Sean