Upgrade to 2003 question

[Guest]

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!

 

[WM]

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

 

[Guest]

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

Thanks for the input!

Lee