Quickly schedule computer restart - in the next 24 hours

@DP That's a great script!

If I may, I would recommend the following adjustments: delete line 16 and change line 17 to be as follows:

Start-Process "shutdown.exe" -ArgumentList "/r /t ${secondsUntilShutdown}" -Wait

The reason for this is 2-fold:

1. The script will now quickly return back to the Atera console having scheduled the reboot for some time in the future. If there was an error, this would also be returned too.
2. Instead of waiting for the script to pause it's own execution before invoking an immediate reboot, the reboot will now be scheduled via the shutdown command. This means, if you made a mistake and need to cancel the reboot you can simply run shutdown /a from any CMD or Powershell console to abort the scheduled restart. Trust me, you will want the ability to quickly abort this action.

I'm not aware of any mechanism by which scripts submitted to the Shared Script Library can be updated. @nina or @Sarah_from_Atera can you provide any clarity here?

@DP This looks good.

BTW - are you searching the script library for similar scripts before writing up your own? I found this from Apr 26, 2022:

@DP you just need to add this:

# If the current time is past the time specified, add 1 day to $shutdownTime
If ( $shutdownTime -lt (Get-Date) ) { $shutdownTime = $shutdownTime.AddDays(1) }

And insert it just before this:

# Calculate time until shutdown

$timeUntilShutdown = $shutdownTime - (Get-Date)

If you want the console output to be a little more detailed about when the restart will occur, change the Write-Host line just before the Start-Process command to be as follows:

Write-Host "Restart has been scheduled for ${shutdownTime}"

I made a few other very minor tweaks. Here's the full script:

# Prompt user to enter time in 24 hour format
$time = "{[Time_Value]}"


# Convert time to DateTime object
Try { $shutdownTime = [DateTime]::ParseExact($time, "HH:mm", $null) }

Catch { Write-Error "Invalid time entered!" ; Exit }


# If the current time is past the time specified, add 1 day to $shutdownTime
If ( $shutdownTime -lt (Get-Date) ) { $shutdownTime = $shutdownTime.AddDays(1) }


# Calculate time until shutdown
$timeUntilShutdown = $shutdownTime - (Get-Date)


# Convert time to seconds
$secondsUntilShutdown = [int]$timeUntilShutdown.TotalSeconds


# Schedule shutdown using shutdown.exe
Start-Process "shutdown.exe" -ArgumentList "/r /t ${secondsUntilShutdown}" -Wait

Write-Output "Restart has been scheduled for ${shutdownTime}"

These look great! I wonder if we can make a suggestion with the shared script library for edits so that the newer ones could replace older ones we had before. Maybe in the description when you submit it, you can put a note in there that it improves [insert script name] so that it'll let their librarians maybe replace old ones.