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Network PC shutdown automation ?

The company wants a way of having computers shut down at night if the user doesn't. I've found a few ways of doing this but here is my problem. They want to be able to say all computers in this building except these few. And the Exception list might vary from time to time. So I tested out doing it through Group policy creating a group of computers for that building applying the policy to it. and initially it works but when I take PC's out of that group they still shut down. Even after manually forcing gpupdate on them before the scheduled time.  I'd even consider a third party option if anyone knows of one.
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I'd be tempted to set a Windows Task Scheduler task to do the job and look forward to being able to disable the task when you need the computer to stay on.  In my smaller environment I'd just do each one separately.  But, I'm sure there's a way to do it, or something very similar, through a Group Policy approach or other remote setup.
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I thought about that too but we have almost 20,000 devices and even if I got the deployed Scheduled task to work which in the 10 min I tried wasn't working then I still have to deal with when they want ones excluded I'd have to have some way or removing or disabling the task on those selected ones.
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