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Who are the certified experts? Find the system event log about remote shutdown failed, post them to us for analysis. It runs with cmd and you just have to call psexec and write the ip and then pass every command you want. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Internet Explorer TechCenter. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. To force applications to close and restart the local computer after a one-minute delay with the reason "Application: Maintenance Planned " and the comment "Reconfiguring myapp.
Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Note If p or u are not specified, the restart or shutdown is unplanned. In this article. Forces running applications to close without warning users. Lists the reason for the system restart or shutdown. On checking the event log and windows update log I was able to verify that all the updates had installed OK, and there were no other errors worthy of note.
So in summary, if you want to save yourself a long trip, to most likely press a power or reset switch, you may want to try the above first. Filed under Windows Tagged with A system shutdown is in progress , Force reboot , Please wait for the windows modules installer , psexec , pskill , remote server , Windows Server , winlogon.
Thank you for the very useful info. Excellent suggestion. I ran into exactly this problem, the remote system was partially unresponsive and was clearly not responding to reboot commands.
Thanks for this tip! But server is reachable thru ping. Does the account you are logged in with have admin rights on the server you are trying to kill the process on? I get the following error message when i try to pskill winlogon.
Pingback: Force reboot of a remote server Linewalker Tech Blog. Pingback: Confluence: ITdoc Import. Pingback: Remote shutdown itdamage. Worked for me as well. Worth noting for me however is how earlier in my career this was really make or break stuff. This tool worked well! Killing the winlogon process worked for me, thanks for the tip.
Looks like it turned out to be Windows Updates that was the culprit that caused the botched reboot. Thanks for the tip, remotely killing the winlogon process using PSkill worked for me and the server rebooted shortly thereafter.
I had to kill the winlogon and trustedinstaller. My OS was R2 as well. Thanks for the tips your advice worked perfectly saved me a 30 min trip to the server on a cold stormy night.
Thank you…. I made that mistake the first time and then was screwed with the machine inaccessible and shutdown. Thanks, another tip working very well. Once the server said Please wait for the windows modules installer, I remotely accessed the Services via the services.
After that I was able to signon, but only with a local account and not domain account. Pingback: Getting a hung Windows R2 server up and running after installing Windows updates.
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