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Automatically reboot group of computers

What's the best way to automatically reboot a group of computers each night?

We run Active Directory so I'm thinking about group policy that we can make the machines in question a member of and a script that runs a shutdown command.

How do I schedule the script to run at a certain time and is this the best way to do this?

Thanks!

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joshsfinn

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I'd kind of like it to be a GPO so that I can put machines into a group and then it's one less thing to change if we add/remove/rename a computer.

star_trek

Even the script I gave does the same thing instead setting GPO you would set the scheduled task on a difft machine like a server. So if you need to rename or add a machine you will do that to the text file and it will reboot all the remote machines in that list

joshsfinn

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I understand but I was thinking that if we add a computer, we would have to add it to other groups anyways so I'd already be making GPO changes which would queue me to add it to the "automatic reboot" group.

I'm just trying to make this as easy as possible.

Thanks - these are all good suggestions.