Shutdown or Restart a remote pc

This tutorial assumes the remote host is on Active Directory, and you have adminstrative control over it.

From a command prompt enter: runas user/campus\xx-adminxx cmd

Enter your password when prompted

This will start a command prompt running as your Active Directory Administrator account

To shutdown a remote host, enter the following in the new command prompt window :

shutdown -m \\xxpc-lab1 -s

To restart a remote host :

shutdown -m \\xxpc-lab1 -r

To view a list of all available shutdown commands use:

shutdown or shutdown ?