Force Restart of Remote PC or PCs
It happens all the time. You have a system you cant reach internally or other remote access software, but you can ping it and know it is alive. You know if it is restarted it will probably allow you access and you don't want to drive across town or worse to press a power button.
From a domain controller logged on as administrator run the following command from the run menu
"Shutdown /i"
The following shutdown menu will appear:
Click Add to add the computer name you need to restart or shutdown. If you want it to restart it without delay, change the option from Restart to Shutdown so you can access and uncheck the greyed out "Warn user of the action"
Then change dropdown back to restart and you can restart without "warning"
You will have to put in a comment as well. before clicking ok.
I would recommend you also open up a command prompt and run a constant ping using the Ping -t command to see when it goes offline and comes back for example:
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