How would I go about shutting down or rebooting a remote system.
A scenario can be used as a group of networked computers in a school room, the teacher will be able to shutdown selected systems to shutdown from their machine.
How would I be able to do this.
I have searched for a method to retrieve networked machines, but in the scenario how would this work?
The Microsoft SysInternals utility psShutdown will do exactly what you're looking for.
You can use PsShutdown to initiate a shutdown of the local or a remote computer, logoff a user, lock a system, or to abort an imminent shutdown.