Upgrade to 2003 question

[lee]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_upgrade (More info?)

I've almost completed upgrading our entire domain to 2003, and so far it's
been pretty painless. However, I have a question.

We reschedule our servers to reboot daily (except for Friday when we do a
full backup). Now that I've upgraded to 2003, the shutdown.exe seems to be
extremely sporadic if I try to schedule a job that calls it. I'm using the
following command in a .bat file.

c:\winnt\system32\shutdown /r /f /d p:00:00

Any ideas why this wouldn't run? It usually runs the first scheduled time,
and then gives a 0x15 result in the scheduled tasks view, and no entry in the
event viewer.

Thanks for any input!

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_upgrade (More info?)

Perhaps try using PSShutdown from Sysinternals - it's free, and you may find
it more reliable (and powerful) than shutdown...

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml


"Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news27CDCBA-6002-4382-B807-A5180A4DF72B@microsoft.com...
> I've almost completed upgrading our entire domain to 2003, and so far it's
> been pretty painless. However, I have a question.
>
> We reschedule our servers to reboot daily (except for Friday when we do a
> full backup). Now that I've upgraded to 2003, the shutdown.exe seems to be
> extremely sporadic if I try to schedule a job that calls it. I'm using the
> following command in a .bat file.
>
> c:\winnt\system32\shutdown /r /f /d p:00:00
>
> Any ideas why this wouldn't run? It usually runs the first scheduled time,
> and then gives a 0x15 result in the scheduled tasks view, and no entry in
> the
> event viewer.
>
> Thanks for any input!

 

[lee]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_upgrade (More info?)

Good call WM. I actually found PSShutdown elsewhere, and it works like a charm!

Thanks for the input!

Lee

"WM" wrote:

> Perhaps try using PSShutdown from Sysinternals - it's free, and you may find
> it more reliable (and powerful) than shutdown...
>
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml
>
>
> "Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news27CDCBA-6002-4382-B807-A5180A4DF72B@microsoft.com...
> > I've almost completed upgrading our entire domain to 2003, and so far it's
> > been pretty painless. However, I have a question.
> >
> > We reschedule our servers to reboot daily (except for Friday when we do a
> > full backup). Now that I've upgraded to 2003, the shutdown.exe seems to be
> > extremely sporadic if I try to schedule a job that calls it. I'm using the
> > following command in a .bat file.
> >
> > c:\winnt\system32\shutdown /r /f /d p:00:00
> >
> > Any ideas why this wouldn't run? It usually runs the first scheduled time,
> > and then gives a 0x15 result in the scheduled tasks view, and no entry in
> > the
> > event viewer.
> >
> > Thanks for any input!
>
>
>