Schedule the shutdown selected clients.

Hi all,
We running a Win 2000 domain with XP sp2 clients.
I have been asked to find a way to shutdown selected clients on a Friday
evening. Is there any way to schedule this through a GPO?
I am considering configuring a script to run shutdown.exe in a batch file
but obviously this offers no way to control the process centrally. Does
anyone know of a better way?
Ideally I would like to save any documents left open before the shutdown.
All advice is greatly appreciated. Simon.Hi
This is the SQL Server NG, you may get a bettwer answer by posting this to
the .Windows.* NG.
Off the top of my head, look at http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/ and
http://www.microsoft.com/MOM/
Regards
Mike
"Simon" wrote:

> Hi all,
> We running a Win 2000 domain with XP sp2 clients.
> I have been asked to find a way to shutdown selected clients on a Friday
> evening. Is there any way to schedule this through a GPO?
> I am considering configuring a script to run shutdown.exe in a batch file
> but obviously this offers no way to control the process centrally. Does
> anyone know of a better way?
> Ideally I would like to save any documents left open before the shutdown.
> All advice is greatly appreciated. Simon.
>
>