Emco Remote ShutDown Professional is a networking tool that allows you to shut down, log-off, reboot or power-off all or selected machines on a network. It offers one-click enumeration of machines with and also supports manual addition by name or via IP-Range. To shut down computers, you can simply drag the selected machines to the Machine Queue. You can also retrieve system information from the remote machines and filter the machines to be shutdown based on that information. The Shutdown Jobs can be saved and scheduled to be repeated on an hourly, weekly or monthly schedule. Additional features include optional install of a service and shutdown message.

It's easy to shutdown or reboot the computer which you currently use, right? But if you need to do the same for all PCs in your organization, it can become a problem. EMCO Remote Shutdown allows you to manage state of all PCs in your local network with similar efforts required to manage state of the computer which you currently use.

How it works? It's really easy and requires just few actions. First of all you need to create a job and define the type of operation, which you want to execute. For example, you can select Power Off operation to turn off the power on remote computers. Then you need to define PCs where this job will be executed. To get the list of available PCs in the local network you can launch fast automatic network scan. When scan will be completed you can select required PCs and add them to the machine queue. Finally, you can execute job immediately or define a schedule when it should be executed. The whole process of job creation and execution is really fast - it takes few seconds for networks with thousands of PCs.

Key Features:
Ability to remotely manage PCs state both in a domain and in a workgroup. No any specific requirements.
Execution of Reboot and Shutdown operations on one or group of remote PCs without installing any client-side software.
Support extended set of operations with remote PCs if remote Agent is used: Log Off, Power Off, Reboot, Shutdown, Wakeup On Lan, Lock and Unlock of mouse and keyboard.
Notification features: sending message to remote PCs before execution of operation and receiving Email confirmation about operation completion.
Operations scheduling: start/end date definition, execution options - once, repeat by minute, repeat by hour, weekly on defined days, monthly.
Execution of custom command-line tasks on the remote PCs before performing required action.

As you may know starting from Windows NT4 shutdown utility is a part of Windows distribution. Using this utility you can reboot or shutdown remote computers. If so, why should you use EMCO Remote Shutdown?

Standard approach has a set of limitations. In particular, you can use limited set of operations: Shutdown and Reboot only. But EMCO Remote Shutdown allows you to install secure remote Agent to remote PCs and benefit from using extended operations set. Installation process is automatic and straightforward and doesn't require any efforts from your side. When Agent is installed, you can use following operations:

Log Off that force exit for current logged user
Power Off that makes shutdown and physically power off the PC
Lock and Unlock keyboard and mouse
Launch any custom command before executing of remote operation
Advantages are not limited by support of extended operations. EMCO Remote Shutdown is a fully-functional tool rather than utility and you can benefit from other features like job definitions, their scheduling, logs, notifications and other useful things.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $99.00, you can free download and get a free trial.