Just a quick one today as I’m always forgetting how to do this! I occasionally have to schedule server reboots to happen in the middle of the night. This is easily achieved by using the AT command in a command prompt window. The following example will schedule a server reboot for 3AM as a one-off job.

AT 03:00 shutdown /r

If all goes well you should get a message back like “Added a new job with Job ID = 1.” If you get an “access is denied” error then you need to run the console as Administrator. The jobs created this way can be viewed using the Task Scheduler.

task scheduler