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Restart several computers and boot to network Windows XP

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by dvillani.student

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Hi,
I was wondering if it would be possible to create a program that would remotely restart a certain number of computers (that I specify upon running the program) and reboot them. However instead of booting to the hard drive, they would boot to the network.
My division is in charge of working with computer images so it would be of great help if we could reboot a group of computer to the network remotely so that we do not have to restart 30 computers 1 by 1 and access the boot menu and then press network

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
DV

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by dvillani.student

Thanks for the idea but we are using a program called clonezilla which does all of that better and its a freeware program. However, the only problem is that we have an image server and in order to image a computer we have to boot whichever computers we are imaging to the network in order to pull the image onto the computer.

I'm mainly looking for a way to auto restart a computer and have it boot to the network (while having the computer boot to the hard drive primarily) wither through a program or through a series of programmed commands so that I do not have to manually restart 60 computers and boot them to the network individually

I'm not sure if theres any way to do this but if there is a way I would greatly appreciate the help
Thanks

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