Friday, 4 December 2009

Restart Windows Server Remotely

Found ourselves in a situation today in that we needed to restart a remote Windows Server which wasn't accepting RDP connections and didn't have a DRAC or any other method of remote access.

Running the shutdown command from another workstation/server with the following switches did the job:
shutdown /m \\targetcomputer /r

Usage
/m \\targetcompter - specifies the target computer
/r - restarts the computer

Hardly rocket science, but a nice tip non the less.