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That's good enough for me. Thanks

Win PE 4.0 was released in the Windows ADK and it includes support for the .NET Framework now, which I'm really excited for. I've started creating some applications for it already and they seem to be working just fine. But Windows 8 is still quite some time away. So I was wondering on how the stability of Win PE 4.0 is now and if it's going to change all that much from here until Windows is launched. Since Win PE is pretty much a stripped down version of Windows and only the core components of the OS are included, it stands to reason that Win PE won't change much by then. What do you guys think?

allen2, Thanks a lot for the suggestion. It's helped a whole lot. So, I decided to do two different things. First, I setup static IPs for each desktop. Which was a pain, but it allows me to ping each one and I'll always know which PC it is. Second, I'm going to setup a background script to check for a file on the server every "x" amount of seconds. If the file, which will most likely be the MAC address, is on the server, then call shutdown. In theory, I think this should work out perfectly well. Thanks again for the help!

Hey guys, At my work, we have about 250 units that boot WinPE many times a day. At the end of the day or just during certain periods, I'd like to be able to shutdown all or just some PCs through a custom application I'm making. So far, I'm having no luck with the shutdown command and was hoping I could get some advice from everyone here. At first, I couldn't even ping the PCs. I then found out that I needed to turn off the firewall in order to do so. Doing that allows me to ping each PC just fine, but when I send the shutdown command, either by PC name or IP, it just returns a bunch of lines. Just for testing, I'm only doing this: shutdown //computerName or shutdown //0.0.0.0