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pow

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 12:34

quote:
Originally posted by John
I do it at least a couple of times a week :lol:

:o :o this :o :o

Or the FORCE SHUTDOWN button in HyperV :lol:


John

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 12:01

I do it at least a couple of times a week :lol:


Dom

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 12:01

Touch wood i've yet had to pull the plug on a server in anger but hopefully i can get someone in the office to sort.

Cheers for all the help :cool:


John

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 10:56

I have to hard shutdown server all the time. I'm not saying that it can't cause problems, because it can. Normally ok though.


willay

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 10:28

if you press the reset button it should do a soft reset where it sends a shutdown signal to the O/S, if you hold down the reset/shutdown button for >5 seconds it will hard shut down and possibly cause issues.


Dom

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 09:54

John - No worries, thought it might. Unfortunately there isn't VPN to network, so i'm a bit screwed with out RDP. Strangely i was going to configure VPN on the box over the weekend, always the way :facepalm::lol:

Quick question - if i can't get anyone to login to the box via RDP to reboot it, what's the best solution to safely bring the box down and back up again?
Likelihood of the server going tits up if the front panel reboot button/pulling plug method is used?


John

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 09:38

Sorry Dom, it is. I normally have some other way of getting on, be it a PC or a VPN.


Dom

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 09:34

Not in the office, so it looks like i'll get someone to reboot the box when they get chance.


quote:
Originally posted by John
I use push VNC when it happens.


Is this for local use only?


pow

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 08:46

If you can restart it you can smb to it (\\server), authenticate and then shutdown -r -t 0 -m \\server


pow

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 08:45

I'd be honest and just say restart it would be my first port of call (if you can do that).

If not use qwinsta to disconnect any other remote sessions.

It's likely to be a service that fucked though


John

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 08:43

I use push VNC when it happens.


Neo

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 08:38

Do you not have access to the console ? I'd wager you're right, service "stopping" or failed to restart for whatever reason. Never seen it before though, guessing if you can see the event viewer it will answer all.


Sam

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 08:28

I had this a couple of times but on a 2011 box.

Had to get someone in the office to reboot the server in the end. Backup software was the culprit in that case (Symantec Backup Exec or something like that), the backup job got stuck part way through because it couldn't write to the backup drive so I think it had just been in some sort of infinite loop.


Dom

posted on 28th Sep 12 at 07:57

Have a SBS2008 box and when attempting to remote in using the administrator credentials (either locally or domain), it displays "Loading Session Manager" (or something similar) and automatically closes the session.
If i enter wrong usernames/passwords the session will stay open and sit at the 'Switch User' screen.

I assuming it's a borked service or a previous user hasn't logged out properly (never had that issue before) but does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers for any help.