Win 10 Pro debugging help, trying for remote shutdown

torin3 · Feb 15, 2017

At my work we have informational displays in the building that run a Powerpoint slideshow. When we update it, we use some .cmd files to update everything.

The ones running on Win 7 have no real issues with this, but the one Windows 10 Pro machine fails.

This is the .cmd file (with passwords and the like bowlderized)

Code:

@taskkill /s displaycnc /u domain\lobbydisplay /p password /pid pptview.exe 
@taskkill /s displaycnc /u domain\lobbydisplay /p password /pid pOWERPNT.exe
@taskkill /s displaycnc /u domain\lobbydisplay /p password /pid ppview32.exe

\\server6\UTILPUB\SLEEP 10

del \\server7\ShopDisplays\cnc\shopnews.pps
copy \\server7\ShopDisplays\cnc\shopnews.ppt \\server7\ShopDisplays\cnc\shopnews.pps




shutdown.exe /r /f /m  \\DISPLAYcnc

All the Powerpoint processes are stopped and the old .pps file gets deleted, but then it just sits there and never reboots.

Janus67 · Feb 15, 2017

is it ran as an admin? It could be failing without necessary elevation privs

torin3 · Feb 15, 2017

Janus67 said:
is it ran as an admin? It could be failing without necessary elevation privs

Well, the username/pass in the first 3 lines is for a local administrator account. And this .cmd file is being run from a different machine on the network. How do you pass on elevated permissions to the machine? This does work on 6 Win 7 pro machines as written.

Edit: When run from a domain admin account, it does reboot. The person who normally runs the command is not a domain admin. Would adding their account as an administrator for the local computer fix this?

Edit2: That appears to resolve it. Added the user who normally runs the .cmd as a local admin and then it rebooted. Thanks Janus!

Janus67 · Feb 15, 2017

No problem, glad it worked!

Win 10 Pro debugging help, trying for remote shutdown

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