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I'm after the correct way to schedule a reboot on an SBS2011/WS2008r2 box.

External support company created a reboot.bat file and added a scheduled task to run it at 6am every Monday morning.

reboot.bat contains:

shutdown -r -f

The batch executes correctly and reboots the server cleanly, yet upon reboot the Server is left with the following screen:

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What is the best way to schedule this reboot?

This reboot is to solve performance problems due to running database reports on a Sunday afternoon. I am fully aware about the problems we have by running additional databases on an SBS box (if it were my choice we wouldn't be).

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You should provide the /d option to give a reason for the shutdown in advance.

You can get a list of the reasons available to you by running shutdown /? in a terminal. However, given your scenario I'd use shutdown /r /f /d p:4:1 for "Application maintenance (Planned)".

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  • Excellent thanks Falcon, have made the change but will have to wait until next Monday morning to check it's success! – HaydnWVN Aug 19 '13 at 11:08
  • Am I correct in thinking that arguments in a batch file have to be used with a dash `-` rather than a backslash `/` ? – HaydnWVN Aug 20 '13 at 09:08
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    `/` is a forward slash and is the traditional way of specifying arguments to windows command line programs. It should work regardless of context. Most things support `-` as well and in the case of this utility I believe they are completely interchangeable. – Falcon Momot Aug 20 '13 at 09:26
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    Ok thanks, tested here successfully, but not on a WS2008 machine (thankfully don't have any of them here!) ;) – HaydnWVN Aug 20 '13 at 09:34