LKBEN10628: How to schedule a reboot from a windows 2003 server with at


Symptom

You need to reboot your server automatically and only once

Cause

none

Solution

For scheduling you can use the at command.

The following command will reboot your server at 02:00am

at 2:00am shutdown.exe /r /f /c "reboot" /t 10

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.