Reboot Software

All,
I'm trying to get my servers to reboot on a schedule and I wondered how some of you approached the issue. In the past I've used the regular Windows Scheduler with a .bat file to reboot my servers. Well, it isn't always working for me and I don't know why. I've tried a couple of third party tools and I'm still having problems rebooting the servers. It seems to be an issue if users have an RDP connection open.

I know it sounds like an easy task to schedule a reboot but man am I having problems with this. Do any of you have any good solutions out there?

Thanks in Advance.

Are you using the tool in the Windows Resource Pack - SHUTDOWN.EXE ? Make sure you use the -F orce option to kill everything on the box prior to shutdown. I certainly have never seen the citrix farm at my customers refuse to reboot !

I have a good link to shutdown.exe here :

http://spla.sh/SHUTDOWN.EXE

thats the version I use - and it works fine. It might be a different version from what you've got - try it out !

tsshutdn /SERVER:JDEENT /REBOOT

Thie EXE is on all Windows 2003 servers

Just use the Task Scheduler or write a batch file.

Thanks guys for you help. Let's see if it works tonight.