Java – GlassFish service stop when the console is logged out

If you just want to soft-shutdown the server, and pressing the power button doesn't do that, you can use the "shutdown" console command to remotely shutdown the server (or shutdown -r to restart it). just type "shutdown /?" in cmd to see the syntax.

Assuming the problem recurs, and the hang is on the login phase, i had a similar problem on a couple of my servers that had to do with domain authentication. I don't remember specifics, but upgrading to SP2 and installing a specific hotfix for the problem fixed it. (i don't remember the KB number, but a search of the technet for "windows hangs on login" should provide clues)

Does your server have multiple NIC's installed? We ran into a behavior that occurs on some servers where the server gets rebooted but you cannot connect via RDP, but it doesn't happen every time.

We finally tracked it down to an obscure bug (IMHO) where having the RDP bound to all interfaces (which is the default) can cause the behavior. Fortunately, the first server we had that happen on had a DRAC which allowed us to correct the problem remotely. The second one did not.

The solution was to explicity bind RDP to the interface it was suppose to be using. Since then we haven't had a problem. In the case of our second server we were able to issue a reboot command from another machine on the network and when it came back up we were able to connect and fix the issue. The command was:

shutdown /r /f /t 000 /m \\<servername>

or you can use this command to show the GUI for it

shutdown /i