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| Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:03:15 -0700
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| Is there a was to have an NT server send a message to all
| connected workstations. We periodically reboot the
| server but do not have a proficient way to inform users.
| Can it be built into the reboot process.
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Rich -
You can build the process into a batch file, similiar to the following:
NET SEND /USERS "The File Server will be rebooted in 5 minutes."
SLEEP 300
SHUTDOWN \\FILESERVER /R
Shutdown.exe is available with the resource kit.
The Sleep utility is also available with the resource kit. If you do not
have the resource kit available, you can (believe it or not) use the PING
command to allow the same functionality:
NET SEND /USERS "The File Server will be rebooted in 5 minutes."
PING -n 301 127.0.0.1>nul
SHUTDOWN \\FILESERVER /R
In this example, we are pinging the local machine (127.0.0.1), and piping
any output to null, so no progress will show on the console. By passing -n
301 to the PING command, this will effectively pause the batch file for 300
seconds, or five minutes.
Hope this helps,
Derek Wirch, MCSE+I (NT 4.0), MCP (Win2k)
Microsoft Exchange Support Engineer
Enterprise Messaging Support - Admin
Email: a-derekw@microsoft.com
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