Software Recommendations

[dannyjay]

Something simular to Shutdownertron that works on Server 2003 and XP machines as we are looking to make machines shut down at say 7pm if they are left on! If it has extras thats a good thing, but something simple for now and not a massive cost!)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
DJ.

[Brpilot99]

try Switch off 2.3 its free ..... do a google search for it and you'll find lots of download links ... I made an MSI and pushed it out to my pc's with a gpo ...

[dannyjay]

Looks ok, but we need something with a GUI so we can disable it if needs be!

[Brpilot99]

Hiyah yes it has a GUI or you can have it run silent ....

[FN-GM]

whats wrong with using Shutdownertron?

[powdarrmonkey]

that works on Server 2003 and XP machines as we are looking to make machines shut down at say 7pm if they are left on! If it has extras thats a good thing, but something simple for now and not a massive cost!)

Um... Shutdownertron? It's a give-away, I don't charge for it (though donations are always nice).

[FN-GM]

Its excllent and easy to use, give it a go

[dannyjay]

Um... Shutdownertron? It's a give-away, I don't charge for it (though donations are always nice).

I was just wondering so I could compare! Hehe.

[powdarrmonkey]

Fair enough I'm not aware of any other software that works in the decentralised way that Shutdownertron does; usually it involves a server calling each machine individually at the time of payload, or an agent that has to be configured per-machine. Shutdownertron takes central policy settings, but runs its payload locally.