Would 'shutdown.exe -f -s' be potentially damaging to Domain Controllers ?

[Guest Alex]

Hi. If possible could anyone confirm whether there is any risk of 'damage'

to domain controllers if a network of ~20 servers with two (2003) Domain

Controller were to be shutdown using a script similar to below :

 

shutdown.exe -f -s -m \\DC1

shutdown.exe -f -s -m \\DC2

shutdown.exe -f -s -m \\Server1

shutdown.exe -f -s -m \\Server2

...............

 

I am currently looking at a small network which was previously working

without any problems that has developed errors on their DCs to do with

replication, dns, dfs etc. The errors only started happening after the

above style of script was used to shutdown the system, the servers have been

shutdown/restarted 'normally' in the past without problem. In particular

would using the -f paramenter to force running applications to close be a

specific potential problem to a DC and since there are only two DCs, would

forcefully shutting down the only two DCs on the network at the same time

cause problems compared to allowing one to fully shutdown before shutting

down the second ?

 

Thanks for any help,

Alex.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Would 'shutdown.exe -f -s' be potentially damaging to Domain Controllers ?

 

 

"Alex" <news@ms.com.news> wrote in message

news:e37Sc377HHA.5212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> Hi. If possible could anyone confirm whether there is any risk of

> 'damage' to domain controllers if a network of ~20 servers with two (2003)

> Domain Controller were to be shutdown using a script similar to below :

>

> shutdown.exe -f -s -m \\DC1

> shutdown.exe -f -s -m \\DC2

> shutdown.exe -f -s -m \\Server1

> shutdown.exe -f -s -m \\Server2

> ..............

>

> I am currently looking at a small network which was previously working

> without any problems that has developed errors on their DCs to do with

> replication, dns, dfs etc. The errors only started happening after the

> above style of script was used to shutdown the system, the servers have

> been shutdown/restarted 'normally' in the past without problem. In

> particular would using the -f paramenter to force running applications to

> close be a specific potential problem to a DC and since there are only two

> DCs, would forcefully shutting down the only two DCs on the network at the

> same time cause problems compared to allowing one to fully shutdown before

> shutting down the second ?

>

> Thanks for any help,

> Alex.

 

Using shutdown.exe is safe, provided that your client machines have

closed their various server-based files (word processing, spreadsheets,

data bases).