Comments on: How to shutdown or restart a remote machine? http://weseetips.com/2008/06/10/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-a-remote-machine/ Gold mine of Visual C++ tricks! Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jijo.Raj http://weseetips.com/2008/06/10/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-a-remote-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Jijo.Raj Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:38:34 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-149 Well Summey, are you trying to make an application - which can install patch or service pack to all machines in your network and can restart the machine after installation? Well, in that case i can recommend you anther cool idea. You can execute an application in a remote machine without installing any agent in that machine. Check out this article - http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/I-N/network/remoteinvocation/article.php/c5433 All Microsoft patches supports the command line - /forcerestart and /norestart. If you have multiple patches to be installed to a machine, then execute all the patches in remote machine by passing /norestart and the last one with /forcerestart. So that after installing all patch the machine will restart itself. Is this what you're looking for? Or something else? Feel free to ask. Regards, Jijo. Well Summey, are you trying to make an application – which can install patch or service pack to all machines in your network and can restart the machine after installation?

Well, in that case i can recommend you anther cool idea. You can execute an application in a remote machine without installing any agent in that machine. Check out this article – http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/I-N/network/remoteinvocation/article.php/c5433

All Microsoft patches supports the command line – /forcerestart and /norestart. If you have multiple patches to be installed to a machine, then execute all the patches in remote machine by passing /norestart and the last one with /forcerestart. So that after installing all patch the machine will restart itself.

Is this what you’re looking for? Or something else? Feel free to ask.

Regards,
Jijo.

]]> By: summey http://weseetips.com/2008/06/10/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-a-remote-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-148 summey Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:07:39 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-148 Im a network admin and i want to write a c++ program that scans the network for machines needing to be restarted. For example when updates are applied and and it pompts to restart i want my program to be able to pick up on that and inform me that machine is in-need of a restart. Thank you for your time ryan.summey@jacob-holm.com Im a network admin and i want to write a c++ program that scans the network for machines needing to be restarted. For example when updates are applied and and it pompts to restart i want my program to be able to pick up on that and inform me that machine is in-need of a restart.

Thank you for your time
ryan.summey@jacob-holm.com

]]> By: Jijo.Raj http://weseetips.com/2008/06/10/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-a-remote-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Jijo.Raj Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:56:21 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-147 Hi Rajeev, You should have admin privilege in the remote machine or atleast SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege. Check out this link - <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376874(VS.85).aspx" rel="nofollow">. See the remarks section for more possible errors. Regards, Jijo. Hi Rajeev,

You should have admin privilege in the remote machine or atleast SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege. Check out this link – . See the remarks section for more possible errors.

Regards,
Jijo.

]]> By: Rajeev http://weseetips.com/2008/06/10/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-a-remote-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Rajeev Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:43:09 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-146 InitiateSystemShutdown( _T("RemotePC01"), // Machine Name. _T("You are going to be restarted"), 5000, // timeout TRUE, // Forcefully close applications. TRUE ); // Restart the PC This is not working from my system.Should i have to do settings before doing this from VC++ InitiateSystemShutdown( _T(“RemotePC01″), // Machine Name.
_T(“You are going to be restarted”),
5000, // timeout
TRUE, // Forcefully close applications.
TRUE ); // Restart the PC

This is not working from my system.Should i have to do settings before doing this from VC++

]]> By: Jijo.Raj http://weseetips.com/2008/06/10/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-a-remote-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Jijo.Raj Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:32:15 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-145 Hello Guru, Indeed. Everything is possible. Have a look at "Wake on lan". Check here for how to configure it - http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-101 THen you've to broadcast a Magic packet to start your remote pc. For Magic packet syntax check here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Magic_Packet Unfortunately there isn't any single windows api call for the same. But i managed to find a C# sample - http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/04/02/3858.aspx . I hope this helps or atleast shows some light. :) Regards, Jijo. Hello Guru,

Indeed. Everything is possible. Have a look at “Wake on lan”. Check here for how to configure it – http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-101

THen you’ve to broadcast a Magic packet to start your remote pc. For Magic packet syntax check here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Magic_Packet

Unfortunately there isn’t any single windows api call for the same. But i managed to find a C# sample – http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/04/02/3858.aspx . I hope this helps or atleast shows some light. :)

Regards,
Jijo.

]]> By: VCGuru http://weseetips.com/2008/06/10/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-a-remote-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-144 VCGuru Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:21:42 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-144 Jijo, Is there any way to start(switch-on) a PC from remote machine through VC++ APIs? Additional Information on this querry Power is already cycled. Windows XP , SP1 VS not installed Jijo, Is there any way to start(switch-on) a PC from remote machine through VC++ APIs?

Additional Information on this querry
Power is already cycled.
Windows XP , SP1
VS not installed

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