Posted June 29, 20177 yr I've tried a couple of recommendations around the web for powershell and batch for restarting a Windows machine. Each script seems to work fine on all machines with the exception of one workstation that seems to shutdown only and not perform a restart - when the scheduled task is ran via Pulseway. Has anyone ever experienced this - where the machine simply shuts down vs restarting? Also, is there a reliable Windows restart script that anyone can share? Thank you.
July 4, 20177 yr Administrators What command are you running to restart the operating system? Is it a simple: shutdown -r -f -t 00 If so, try to restart the OS via WMI: Get-WmiObject win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName Quark | Invoke-WMIMethod -name Win32Shutdown -ArgumentList @(6) -Paul
July 5, 20177 yr Author Thanks Paul. So where you have  "-ComputerName Quark"  I'm guessing Quark must be replaced by the actual name of the computer?
July 5, 20177 yr Author On 7/4/2017 at 5:55 AM, Paul said: What command are you running to restart the operating system? Is it a simple: shutdown -r -f -t 00 If so, try to restart the OS via WMI: Get-WmiObject win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName Quark | Invoke-WMIMethod -name Win32Shutdown -ArgumentList @(6) -Paul  The script above looks good on a test machine. I'll test it out tonight on the one that's simply shutting down only and let you know. Thanks again.
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