Remotely Restart a Computer
To restart a remote computer, use the Restart computer task in the Administration Console.
|If you restart a computer, services running on the computer become unavailable. A user who is logged on to the computer may lose unsaved work.|
|While the computer is restarting, it is in maintenance mode for five minutes. No alerts are generated by the computer. If you restart a server using this task, the restart is logged as unplanned. When you log on to the computer after the restart, the following message appears: "The system has restarted after an unplanned shutdown.”|
For more information about monitoring in System Center Essentials, see System Center Essentials Help: On the Management Server, in the System Center Essentials console, press F1.
|You must use an account that is in the Domain Admins group to perform this procedure.|
Click Start, click All Programs, click Windows Essential Business Server, and then click Windows Essential Business Server Administration Console.
Click the Computers and Devices tab, click the name of a remote computer, and then in the tasks pane, click Restart computer.
In the Restart ComputerName dialog box, click Yes to confirm that you want to restart the remote computer.