A technician is asked to remotely restart a client's computer after office hours for maintenance purposes. The client's computer is on the same local network as the technician. Which command-line tool should the technician use to initiate the remote shutdown?
The shutdown command-line tool can be used to shut down or restart a local or remote machine. The various switches provided with the command can be used to specify options like remote shutdown, the delay in shutdown, and the message to be displayed to the users. netstat is used to display networking statistics and does not have the capability to shut down a machine. gpupdate is used to manually update group policy settings on a particular machine. net use is utilized to connect, remove, and configure connections to shared resources, like mapped drives and network printers. poweroff is a similar command for Linux, not Windows. powershell is the name of a cross-platform command-line shell and scripting language created by Microsoft.
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