Restarting Windows 2000 Server from another server

Is there a way to restart a Windows 2000 server from any another Windows 2000 server? Remote administration is not installed on this server and the keyboard and mouse physically connected to this server is not functional. We are trying to avoid doing a hard reboot of this server. Appreciate any help. Thanks.

Hi Patrick,

You can use the shutdown command from a command prompt. Use "shutdown -i"
without the quotes to get the UI popup. Then you can add the server to
shutdown. (this command is on Windows 2K, XP and 2K3)

Hope this helps,

-Matt

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"Patrick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsB7F2969-A650-4702-91DD-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is there a way to restart a Windows 2000 server from any another Windows
2000 server? Remote administration is not installed on this server and the
keyboard and mouse physically connected to this server is not functional. We
are trying to avoid doing a hard reboot of this server. Appreciate any help.
Thanks.

You could use the following vb script

dim L
dim S

set L = createobject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")

dim str
str = inputbox("Enter Server")

set s= l.ConnectServer(str,"root\cimv2")

dim o
dim os

set os = s.execquery("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem")

dim i

for each o in os

i = o.Reboot()

next

msgbox "Reboot returned " & i


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"Patrick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsB7F2969-A650-4702-91DD-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is there a way to restart a Windows 2000 server from any another Windows
2000 server? Remote administration is not installed on this server and the
keyboard and mouse physically connected to this server is not functional. We
are trying to avoid doing a hard reboot of this server. Appreciate any help.
Thanks.