• High Risks - it goes without saying the risks involved in trusting your mission-critical, line-of-business terminal servers to a free/unsupported batch/script. They can never do all of the tasks necessary for a clean reboot, and they all run shutdown.exe or tsshutdown.exe (from the Windows 2000 days). Neither are recommended for terminal servers.
• Unreliable - think of the significant investment your company has invested in hardware, software, and staff salaries to support its critical business functions on terminal servers…now you want to trust farm uptime to a script?
• Can Cause Errors - after a while, errors can occur that requires manual intervention to fix, taking administrators' time. We have had many customers purchase our software after the servers eventually would not boot because of Registry errors.
• No Support - when problems occur, you’ll have to take the time to programatically fix it. And test it. On your production servers. Scripts don’t come with a dedicated support staff when problems occur. Maintaining the script and modifying its code rests solely on you.
• Simplistic - scripts cannot access the low-level functions required to ensure reliable restarts. Even the most sophisticated scripts handle only a very small fraction of what needs to be done before a proper restart takes place.
• Skills Needed - you or your staff will need to be proficient script programmers.
• Time - you will always need to take time to configure and modify the script and make sure it's running.
• No Backing - scripts are not Microsoft, VMware, or Citrix certified.

Still not convinced? Duplicate a script by hitting the reset button on your server every other day for a few months and see what happens

There are some great scripts that automate tasks or document the network or terminal server schematic. For simple administrative tasks, a script or a system center utility might fill the need perfectly. Restarting a terminal server correctly is a highly detailed process - much more than simply calling tsshutdown.exe!

• Proven - since 2000, companies across the globe depend on ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart every day to take care of their server restarts. It's so unique, it contains proprietary and patent-pending technology
• Professional Software - ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart is not a script. It has never been and never will be; it’s fully compiled non-.NET software for those that take their server environments seriously. Constant refinements and revisions mean you benefit from the collective knowledge gained from other companies.
• Safe Restarts - it provides many features and carries out thousands of lines of code prior to a restart to ensure safe restarts - things that are impossible for scripts to do.
• Automation - it automates restarts so your staff can avoid following tedious step-by-step processes described in tattered notebooks or binders to stop services, wait for servers to restart, and manually run programs.
• Support - ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart comes with updates and technical support by a full-time staff, including former Citrix administrators.
• Costs - license costs are as low as $25 per server, and licenses are available to OEMs.
• Certified - ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart carries VMware and Microsoft certifications, so you know it is compatible and reliable.
• Partner Backing - WM Software is a VMware partner, a Citrix partner, and a Certified Microsoft ISV partner. We have the resources to backup our products.
• Stability - WM Software is a US corporation that has been in business for almost 20 years, with over 100 resellers worldwide, so you can be confident that its software will continue to be supported.
• Adminstrator Friendly - it isn’t just a “restart” program, it’s a fully comprehensive software package that provides the means to centrally manage and control server and desktop restarts. It organizes servers and desktops graphically into groups through an intuitive drag/drop GUI with central management.

• Restart terminal servers with zero-impact to end users.
• Designed for 24x7 usage.
• Completely hands-off restarting software with failure reporting and queue halting.
• Automated, centralized restart solution for all versions of Windows® desktop and server (including terminal server) operating systems.
• Uses a proprietary algorithm to ensure consistent and flexible restarting of servers and desktops.
• Combine servers and desktops into groups with their own schedule.
• Full restart control dependent upon services stopping/starting and computers restarting.
• Different Restart Modes for each group that matches your business needs.
• 30+ customizable Group restart properties.
• 10+ customizable Computer restart properties.
• Intelligent restarting, not just on a fixed schedule!
• Avoids the known problems of using shutdown.exe, tsshutdown.exe, and third-party scripts, shells, and built-in utilities.
• Contains Patented and Patent-pending technology.

You may have used, or are currently using, a script or batch program to restart your servers. Are your users interrupted with a notification or with the servers getting restarted? What about those currently logged on to the server? Do you have a way to generate a summary report or automatically attempt to restart servers that were skipped? What about only restarting in a specific timeframe with servers that are required to be available 24x7? Or separate groups configured differently? Or a GUI interface to configure your restarts? Download a free evaluation of ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart.

The ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart management console is installed and run from one computer. This console manages multiple groups with multiple servers or desktops in each group. The console even can cross domains.

The ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart client runs on all versions of Windows, from Windows 2000 to Windows 2012, and is required because of the advanced processing that is done on the client that is impossible to do remotely. There is nothing to configure in the client software, and the client software can be installed directly from the management console.

With multiple groups and multiple restart types (In Order, Individually, or All-At-Once), your ShutdownPlus Rolling Restart design can be any way you'd like it.