Run a Unix command remotely from Windows

After helping a customer numerous times by diagnosing a failed cron job, I was looked up how to call the job from Windows. This turned out to be interesting given it was a command which could only be run from sudo. Here are the details:

1. First you need a program called plink which is part of the putty distribution. You can download putty from  http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.60-installer.exe
2. Create a text file with your commands somewhere on the PC. For example:
1. /usr/bin/sudo su -
   
3. Either set up your path environment variable on Windows or simply go the putty install folder (e.g C:\Program Files\Putty).
4. plink -t zz000412@PRODDOCS-VORA -m

psexec is another command to run from windows to call a script on another windows box.