I know I'm virtually writing to myself, but still able to get a few votes so hopefully some win32 monks are following along, otherwise I'll spawn a new thread. Starting to notice that my psexec approach to run a forced shutdown isn't always going through, because when I run a 
wmic os get lastbootuptime

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doesn't list the current date / time even after successfully triggering a psexec forced reboot over 6 min prior to checking. ie.: 
psexec.exe \\host-u domain\japh -p obfuscate -i -d cmd /c shutdown /r 
+/f /t 0

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Returns: 
PsExec v2.2 - Execute processes remotely
Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Starting cmd on perlhost...n perlhost...
cmd started on perlhost with process ID 9088.

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but perhaps my psexec syntax is off or else I should be using another method to remotely force shutdown of windows servers.
- 3dbc

In reply to Re^4: SEQUENTIAL REBOOT ORDER WINDOW$ by 3dbc
in thread SEQUENTIAL REBOOT ORDER WINDOW$ by 3dbc

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