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add scheduled task via batch script

Greetings Experts. Routinely I need to restart a handful of computers out of the 250 in the environment. One solution I thought up was to add a scheduled task to the computers listed in a text file which would restart the computer at the time I specified.

For this to work, I would need to have (A) a batch script that would add the computers listed in (B) the text file. I need your help with A and B. I'm not familiar with other scripting languages so please stick with batch files. If you have a different suggestion on achieving the same result (scheduling pc's in a list to restart at x time), feel free to offer it up along with the necessary scripts.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Qlemo

@echo off
set MinutesToWait=30

set /A secs=MinutesToWait*60
for /F "delims=" %%C in (C:\Scripts\RestartPCs.txt) do shutdown /m \\%%C /r /f /t %secs% /c "Administrative maintenance"

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would initiate a shutdown in 30 minutes for all machines listed in the text file C:\Scripts\RestartPCs.txt.
Another way is to create a scheduled task with schtask with runonce and delete after execution, but the only pro of that approach is that you can set up an exact point in time instead of "x minutes in the future".

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Lionel MM

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samiam41

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Thanks experts for your suggestions. Testing them now and will update shortly.

LeeTutor

I've requested that this question be deleted for the following reason:

Not enough information to confirm an answer.

Lionel MM

I don't normally object to these closings by ID: 40234306 is exactly what he asked for and he said he will get back to us and I know this works as I have tested and use it myself.

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Qlemo

Objection: With my additions in http:#a40317634 the code in http:#a40234306 is the best answer one can get for a common task, so I suggest accepting both comments instead of deleting.

samiam41

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Sorry everyone. I was out longer than I expected.

To help close this out, here is what I found so far:

McKnife 2014-07-31 at 15:00:31 ID: 40232735- Good option and allows for restarts/shutdowns using the ADUC MMC. Unless I did it wrong, I didn't see where I could schedule the restart to be at x time.

lionelmm 2014-08-01 at 09:21:07 ID: 40234306- A keeper that I will use going forward along with the modifications made by Qlemo 2014-09-11 at 12:41:10 ID: 40317634

I appreciate everyone's time with this and apologize again for the delay in responding/closing out.