Call me masochist, but I actually like entering the details when shutting down a server.
Windows Server 2012 R2 doesn't seem to provide a field to do that, though.
Is there any way to add "reason" for shutdown via the GUI, not via command line?
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Shutdown.exe still ships with the new versions of Windows.
Simply run:
shutdown /i and the following prompt will appear, allowing you to shutdown/reboot 1 or more servers with a Reason comment:
- Hmm... not ideal, for two reasons: (1) Need to "Add" the current computer, and (2) not integrated with the Start Screen's Shutdown option. But I'll mark yours as the answer anyways.pepoluan– pepoluan2014-09-11 08:08:51 +00:00Commented Sep 11, 2014 at 8:08
- @pepoluan I couldn't stop thinking about it, so now I've written an extensive script to emulate your own Shutdown Event Tracker. It wouldn't be a very good SF answer, but feel free to check it out here. You could edit it further to suit your exact needsMathias R. Jessen– Mathias R. Jessen2014-09-15 20:48:35 +00:00Commented Sep 15, 2014 at 20:48
- @pepoluan, point (1) is a bit better than it seems because you can use a full stop to indicate "the current server". Still not ideal though.Greenstone Walker– Greenstone Walker2016-01-11 00:34:43 +00:00Commented Jan 11, 2016 at 0:34
That's a good habit, congrats.
The traditional way to enable/disable the Shutdown Event Tracker through a Group Policy setting (Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System / Display Shutdown Event Tracker) does not seem to work anymore. The GUI does not seem to offer this functionality anymore.
Your options are to use the shutdown.exe with /c parameter to specify a comment, or use the Write-EventLog PowerShell command to write your reason and then reboot.
Additionally, I would expect the Stop-Computer / Restart-Computer cmdlets to offer some way to specify a reason but they don't seem to have any parameter for that.
- Yeah... after having to lecture my team incessantly to never ever forget to write a comment for each Shutdown/Restart, it's really Really REALLY exasperating to find out that Microsoft, in its infinite(ly misguided) wisdom, had decided to remove the comment field. Oh well.pepoluan– pepoluan2014-09-11 08:10:33 +00:00Commented Sep 11, 2014 at 8:10
If you want your traditional shutdown dialog back, just press Alt + F4 on your desktop. Hope it helps.
