Terry from We Got Served has published information about a new add-in which allows you to shut down and reboot machines in your home network from within the WHS console.
The add-in AutoExit 2008 allows you to execute these actions per machine or for all machines. You can also send messages to the different machines, configuring the timeout/message plus there is even support for opening a Remote Desktop session to the remote machines and also to the server. Statistics are kept of all actions, so that a detailed trace can be viewed when certain actions were executed.
August 11, 2007 at 8:00 pm
I tried this one and it is already very good for being a beta version.
Has lots of options and it is simple to use…
Good work!
August 12, 2007 at 12:19 am
I don’t see this add-in listed in the Developers section of WHS forums yet. May want to have them post it there too.
August 12, 2007 at 5:50 am
Downloaded it and installed it but none of the functions work. Just gives me a error code when i try to send a message and the other commands dont do anything. I tried doing commands on two PCs. one with a firewall, and one without. Was this product even ever tested? Two thumbs down.
August 12, 2007 at 7:12 am
Hi TheJudge,
Long time no hear. I have informed them about posting on the Developer section of the WHS forums.
August 12, 2007 at 7:45 am
Hi Drew Gauderman,
I have just tested it my end and all seems to be ok?
August 12, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I got an email back from the developer, you have to have WinXP for the messages to work. Since there is no documentation, i didnt know that at the time. But the restart and shutdown commands still down work, so i assume you need WinXP for that also :(
Both of my systems are Vista.
August 12, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hi Drew Gauderman,
Thanks for the update. Thats good info to know.
August 13, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Hi Drew,
I also have Vista and it works BUT what I noticed is that you have to have a user account on the client (Vista) machine in order to shut down, so probably it is a security problem with the user that is logged onto the server, not having admin rights on the Vista machine.
And regarding the help, there is a help included, just click the Help button in the console.
I also mailed them for the message sending in Vista but it just isn’t in yet, will probably be for the next beta version.
My 2cts