Background: We run a DS 6.9 for Windows XP and Windows Embedded imaging (rarely used as we are migrating to Win7). We use 7.1 for Win7 imaging and software management.
Situation: About 2 weeks ago an incident occurred where every computer in DS 6.9 was accidentally selected and a Power Control Restart was initiated on them causing about 2/3 (3000 computers) of the computers in our enviroment to reboot all at once and cause a boot storm on our domain controllers. Once we diagnosis what happened, our DS 6.9 server was unplugged from the network and shutdown to prevent any more computers from restarting. This is the second occurance of this happening this year, so upper management was needless to say unpleased.
Question: We still need this server for managing our thin clients, and in the rare case we need to image a PC to Windows XP. Since turning this server on is a touchy subject with management due to the foul taste they have from the boot storm, we want to make sure by turning this server on that no residual reboots are going to occur. We know that a Power Control Reboot is considered a "Live Event". So the question is if a live event does not execute at the time it is requested (say the computer was turned off), will it attempt to execute when the computer is active or does the Live event essentially die?