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How to Reboot machine at a scheduled time?

sauerk
over 7 years ago

Hello,


We have an application launcher element that installs a new silent DLP solution on end workstations.  This solution requires a reboot at some point so we want to schedule the reboot of the clients machine when they are not here (at 11:59 PM).  We are able to easily create this task and in fact I tested in a CMD prompt on my workstation the code and it did reboot my machine that evening.

While some do power down or reboot, there are quite a few that just log off or lock their screens and turn off their monitor.  This is a fail safe to make sure the machine does reboot and the new software agent that is installed becomes fully functional.  Maybe there is another way to achive this but here is the issue we are having.

The line in our bat file successfully adds a one time reboot in Scheduled Tasks :

schtasks /create /sc once /tn "reboot" /tr "shutdown -r" /st 23:59

If I run Task Scheduler as administrator I can see this task on the workstation.  However the last run result says "The operation being requested was not performed because the user has not logged on to the network.  The specified service does not exist. (0x800704DD) Author: scriptlogicuser

 

Any ideas how to bypass that?

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  • 0 over 6 years ago

    Agreed with butlerm, we've had a LOT of trouble with the reliability of the inactivity timer, half the time it won't logout or reboot computers as expected. We created a similar script to force a reboot at a specific time, with a way to opt out if someone is actually still working at that time. We haven't had problems with the element firing at odd hours; we discovered that can be a problem if we check "if the computer is unavailable at specified time, run as soon as available".

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  • 0 over 6 years ago

    Agreed with butlerm, we've had a LOT of trouble with the reliability of the inactivity timer, half the time it won't logout or reboot computers as expected. We created a similar script to force a reboot at a specific time, with a way to opt out if someone is actually still working at that time. We haven't had problems with the element firing at odd hours; we discovered that can be a problem if we check "if the computer is unavailable at specified time, run as soon as available".

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