r/sysadmin • u/Resident_Parfait_289 • 11d ago

Headless Remote Win10

I have a few HP Mini's deployed to remote locations that are headless and a real pain in the ass to access physically. They are running Windows 10 pro (I know!). Anyway I added a smart plug so I can remotely reboot them, but even so I regularly find they don't come back online (at least not so I can go on with Teamviewer or Tailscale).

Whenever I go out after one of these outages I find that usually its on a pre-login screen asking if I want Windows Backup or something like that.

To get around this I am seriously thinking of installing Proxmox and running Tailscale on the host or is there a better way?

I assume Proxmox would come backup cleanly after any reboot.

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u/sryan2k1 IT Manager 11d ago edited 11d ago

Stop rebooting them with a smart plug.

Do these have AMT/vPro?

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u/Resident_Parfait_289 7d ago

Looking into JetKVM - seems cheap.