Trigger a Windows 10 machine to shutdown from HA

Configuration
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RPC is the way, but there is may be more setup to do, to allow remote shutdown:

Part of setup to do on Windows machine:

  1. run “secpol.msc”

    in the program tree, open “Security Settings / Local Policies / User rights Assignment”

    Find the entry “Force shutdown from a remote system”

    Edit the entry, add the CONCRETE user that will be used for shutdown (ex: nouknouk)

  2. Run regedit.exe as Administrator

    find HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System

    create a new registry DWORD(32) value named “LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy” and then assign it the value ‘1’

  3. Setup remote registry service:

    open “cmd.exe” as administrator

    execute the two following commands:

    sc config RemoteRegistry start= auto

    sc start RemoteRegistry

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