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

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


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