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It appears that not all reason codes that are listed can be used by the shutdown command, as other codes work ok. (No idea why they list them then...)<br />
Anyway, I've decided to go for the custom reason codes, which do work.<br />
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Thanks for the link
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It appears that not all reason codes that are listed can be used by the shutdown command, as other codes work ok. (No idea why they list them then...)
Anyway, I've decided to go for the custom reason codes, which do work.

Thanks for the link

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I'm trying to give valid shutdown codes using shutdown.exe on a Windows 2003 Server for shutting down because of an environment issue (Major 6, Minor 12 according to the help)<br />
i'm using the following command:<br />
shutdown.exe /s /m \\server1 /t 15 /d 6:12 /c &quot;UPS failure&quot;<br />
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Now when I look in the event log, I get the following entry:<br />
The process winlogon.exe has initiated the power off of computer server1 on behalf of user SERVER1\Administrator for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found<br />
&nbsp;Reason Code: 0x406000c<br />
&nbsp;Shutdown Type: power off<br />
&nbsp;Comment: UPS failure<br />
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Any idea how I can get the reason to display Power Failure: Environment, as the documentation states? It appears that the Reason code adds an additional 0x04, but I have no idea where that comes from.<br />
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Any suggestions welcome :)
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I'm trying to give valid shutdown codes using shutdown.exe on a Windows 2003 Server for shutting down because of an environment issue (Major 6, Minor 12 according to the help)
i'm using the following command:
shutdown.exe /s /m \\server1 /t 15 /d 6:12 /c "UPS failure"

Now when I look in the event log, I get the following entry:
The process winlogon.exe has initiated the power off of computer server1 on behalf of user SERVER1\Administrator for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found
 Reason Code: 0x406000c
 Shutdown Type: power off
 Comment: UPS failure

Any idea how I can get the reason to display Power Failure: Environment, as the documentation states? It appears that the Reason code adds an additional 0x04, but I have no idea where that comes from.

Any suggestions welcome :)

Windows 2003 shutdown reason codes wrong?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).