GreenFog not working

[xjxby]

I want to shut down my Windows XP computers at 11pm every night and GreenFog is not working. How should I troubleshoot this issue? Also, are there any alternatives ways of doing this?

[Jaymes Driver]

Windows Task Scheduler. Add a task that runs the force shutdown command at 11 pm.

I should probably warn you… Green Fog is getting removed in 0.33

The command you want to put in your task is :
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c:\windows\system32\shutdown -s -f -t 00
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[xjxby]

Nice. How do you do that with 200 computers. Any way to create this scheduled task via a snapin? Or are there alternative solutions?

EDIT: I figured it out myself. Suppose that you want to shut down the computers at midnight every day. Here’s how you do it:

1. Create a .bat file with the following content:
   schtasks /create /tn “shutdown_0000” /tr “c:\windows\system32\shutdown -s -f -t 00” /sc daily /st 00:00 /ru “System”

2. Create a snapin with the .bat file you just created.

3. Deploy the snapin to all your computers.

[Jaymes Driver]

That is exactly what I do