Guest totoro Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 I am trying to set up our XP SP2 clients to shut down at a set hour Monday through Friday for the typical reasons. I am trying use a the AT and /or the SCHTASKS command to run the shutdown.exe command, but it never works. THe sceduled task always appears on the client, after I run the AT or SCTASKS from a 2003 domain controller, and I have tried running the shutdown diretly and through a local batch file (which I have test directly and that works). Is there a documented issue with shutdown and these remote schedulers? ' Thanks in advance!! P.S. I already have an alternative method: I create a batch file on the DC that shutdown the XP PCs and I schedule that, that works, but I want to try this alternative and compare results. I must be missing something.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: suing MS for damages because of at or schtasks to run remote shutdown Re: suing MS for damages because of at or schtasks to run remote shutdown "totoro" <totoro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B48F451C-4285-45C1-B1CC-D5B778B61562@microsoft.com... >I am trying to set up our XP SP2 clients to shut down at a set hour Monday > through Friday for the typical reasons. > I am trying use a the AT and /or the SCHTASKS command to run the > shutdown.exe command, but it never works. > THe sceduled task always appears on the client, after I run the AT or > SCTASKS from a 2003 domain controller, and I have tried running the > shutdown > diretly and through a local batch file (which I have test directly and > that > works). > > Is there a documented issue with shutdown and these remote schedulers? ' > > Thanks in advance!! > > P.S. I already have an alternative method: I create a batch file on the DC > that shutdown the XP PCs and I schedule that, that works, but I want to > try > this alternative and compare results. I must be missing something. No, there is no issue with shutdown.exe, documented or otherwise. The problem lies with your command. Let's have a look at it!
Guest totoro Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: suing MS for damages because of at or schtasks to run remote s Re: suing MS for damages because of at or schtasks to run remote s "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > No, there is no issue with shutdown.exe, documented or otherwise. > The problem lies with your command. Let's have a look at it! > I think my issue is understanding where the " should be in the statement: schtasks.exe /create /SC DAILY /TN shutoff /TR "\"C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe\" /s pc1" /ST 02:45:00 /SD 09/14/2007 /RU SYSTEM" in this case I am trying to target different machines in the domain. I jst found out I need the " in there, previously I could create the event on the target PC but it wouldn't run, then I could create an event on the DC which is not intentional. Thanks for your help!!
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: suing MS for damages because of at or schtasks to run remote s Re: suing MS for damages because of at or schtasks to run remote s "totoro" <totoro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A3954ABF-9B95-41D2-8D4B-9C69830A33C9@microsoft.com... > > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > >> No, there is no issue with shutdown.exe, documented or otherwise. >> The problem lies with your command. Let's have a look at it! >> > > I think my issue is understanding where the " should be in the statement: > > schtasks.exe /create /SC DAILY /TN shutoff /TR > "\"C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe\" /s pc1" /ST 02:45:00 /SD 09/14/2007 > /RU > SYSTEM" > > in this case I am trying to target different machines in the domain. I jst > found out I need the " in there, previously I could create the event on > the > target PC but it wouldn't run, then I could create an event on the DC > which > is not intentional. > > Thanks for your help!! You need to get rid of several superfluous double quotes and slashes: schtasks.exe /create /SC DAILY /TN shutoff /TR C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe /s pc1 /ST 02:45:00 /SD 09/14/2007 /RU SYSTEM
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