Maintain network connectivity on shutdown?

[Randy]

Hello, we have added a script to run at Windows shutdown and in testing it
seems to at least run, but the problem is part of the script process that
needs to access a server on our network fails because it appears that network
connectivity has been dropped at this point in the shutdown process. Is there
any way to set it so that network connectivity is retained on shutdown? For
example, if there is still at least IP connectivity (but the WINS service has
been shutdown), then could we run something on a command line to invoke the
network resource? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[John John - MVP]

Hello, we have added a script to run at Windows shutdown and in testing it
seems to at least run, but the problem is part of the script process that
needs to access a server on our network fails because it appears that network
connectivity has been dropped at this point in the shutdown process. Is there
any way to set it so that network connectivity is retained on shutdown? For
example, if there is still at least IP connectivity (but the WINS service has
been shutdown), then could we run something on a command line to invoke the
network resource? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Are you running this as a GPO "Shutdown" script? GPO Shutdown scripts
are 'supposed' to run before network connections are deleted.

John

 

[Randy]

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, this is a GPO "Shutdown" script. Since you have
confirmed that network connectivity "should" still be available when the
script runs, we are going to have the script generate a log to hopefully give
us an idea of where and what exactly is failing. Thanks again for your reply.