Also something that just came to mind is that you may have a ups around, or can buy a cheap on.
Basically you can connect to server to the batter backup ports of the ups. Really does not matter the size, as long as it supoort communicating with computers. Basically you could probably make another script or call a command that would shutdown the ups. This way all you need to do is setup a scheduled task say 5 minutes after the software shutdown. This would give plenty of time for the actually software shutdown. This is obviously not as clean or nice as just running the one script, but it still should get the job done, and does not depend on a person remembering to do so.
Also if you sometimes can expirence power outages may be a good idea to have the computer that callls the shutdown scripts also on a ups. So when power goes out software shutdown is called then power shutdown on server , then power shutdown on that pc.
So basically only need one person in office to turn on server monday morning or whenever you needed.
Just somethings to think about
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