This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Stop-Computer', in PowerShell version 2 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate ' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Stops (shuts down) local and remote computers.
Stop-Computer [[-ComputerName] <string[]>] [[-Credential] <PSCredential>] [-AsJob] [-Authentication {Default | None | Connect | Call | Packet | P
acketIntegrity | PacketPrivacy | Unchanged}] [-Force] [-Impersonation {Default | Anonymous | Identify | Impersonate | Delegate}] [-ThrottleLimit
<int>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
The Stop-Computer cmdlet shuts down computers remotely. It can also shut down the local computer.
You can use the parameters of Stop-Computer to run the shutdown operations as a background job, to specify the authentication levels and alternat
e credentials, to limit the concurrent connections that are created to run the command, and to force an immediate shut down.
This cmdlet does not require Windows PowerShell remoting unless you use the AsJob parameter.
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C:\PS>stop-computer
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This command shuts down the local computer.
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C:\PS>stop-computer -computername Server01, Server02, localhost
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This command stops two remote computers, Server01 and Server02, and the local computer, identified as "localhost".
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C:\PS>$j = stop-computer -computername Server01, Server02 -asjob
C:\PS> $results = $j | receive-job
C:\PS> $results
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These commands run a Stop-Computer command as a background job on two remote computers, and then get the results.
The first command uses the AsJob parameter to run the command as a background job. The command saves the resulting job object in the $j variable.
The second command uses a pipeline operator to send the job object in $j to the Receive-Job cmdlet, which gets the job results. The command saves
the results in the $results variable.
The third command displays the result saved in the $results variable.
Because the AsJob parameter creates the job on the local computer and automatically returns the results to the local computer, you can run the Re
ceive-Job command as a local command.
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C:\PS>stop-computer -comp Server01 -impersonation anonymous -authentication PacketIntegrity
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This command restarts the Server01 remote computer. The command uses customized impersonation and authentication settings.
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C:\PS>$s = get-content domain01.txt
C:\PS> $c = get-credential domain01\admin01
C:\PS> stop-computer -computername $s -force -throttlelimit 10 -credential $c
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These commands force an immediate shut down of all of the computers in Domain01.
The first command gets a list of computers in the domain and saves it in the $s variable.
The second command gets the credentials of a domain administrator and saves them in the $c variable.
The third command shuts down the computers. It uses ComputerName parameter to submit the list of computers in the $s variable, the Force paramete
r to force an immediate shutdown, and the Credential parameter to submit the credentials saved in the $c variable. It also uses the ThrottleLimit
parameter to limit the command to 10 concurrent connections.