server notifying

[Jdavis]

Is there a way to make windows server 2016 to email me or something to tell me when it rebooted. And/Or open up programs in a certain order? I don't ever know when it reboots until I login to it or try to access files.

[LukeNukem9]

use pulseway. Its one of LTTs sponsors and its dose what you want it to. Its free if you use it with only 3 server/computers.

[Jdavis]

After a couple of tweaks to the registry to enable auto login sat up it's working perfectly. Thank you!

[Mikensan]

Lookup network monitoring tools - there's some free ones out there.

[Acedia]

$SmtpFrom = "YourServer <YourServer@domain.tld>"
$SmtpRecipient = "Lastname, Firstname <YourMailAddress@domain.tld>"
$SmtpServer = "your.mail.server"
$SmtpPort = 587
$SmtpSubject = "Reboot has occured"
$SmtpBody = "The machine " + $env:computername + " has rebooted."

Send-MailMessage -From $SmtpFrom -To $SmtpRecipient -SmtpServer $SmtpServer -Subject $SmtpSubject -Body $SmtpBody -Port $SmtpPort -encoding ([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8)

Save as a .ps1, put it somewhere on the server, create a new task schedular task to run this upon boot