That does sound sort of odd -- maybe you typed it into a Windows command prompt by mistake (not sure if Windows even supports a shutdown command)? In any case, you do need to be the superuser ...
While Windows 10 build 19002 was released to Insiders yesterday, unfortunately it shipped with the same exact bug preventing shutdown or restart for a limited amount of testers. Here's a fix for that.
Earlier someone mentioned the 'shutdown' command in windows. So deciding to have some fun with my wife I sent the command:<BR><BR>shutdown -r -t 30 -m \\NORRATH -c "Your computer has preformed are ...