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The /f option seems to be an undocumented feature of the Windows 2000 shutdown.exe.<br />
This certainly seems to be helping, and the server has been rebooted daily without fail for 2 weeks now.
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The /f option seems to be an undocumented feature of the Windows 2000 shutdown.exe.
This certainly seems to be helping, and the server has been rebooted daily without fail for 2 weeks now.

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I have a script, which works perfectly when run from a DOS prompt. It reboots a Windows 2000 SQL server, and then reboots the host system, also a Windows 2000 server. The command to shutdown the remote server uses shutdown.exe with options \\servername /T:30 /R /C. This script is scheduled to run every Sunday at 10:00. I do not have the option of using freeware or public domain software. &nbsp;<br />
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When this script runs as a scheduled task, it hangs forever whilst performing the remote shutdown command. The scheduled task status is executing.<br />
The account the job runs from is the same account I can use successfully from the dos command window.<br />
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What can be the problem? Remote access privilege? Which one?<br />

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I have a script, which works perfectly when run from a DOS prompt. It reboots a Windows 2000 SQL server, and then reboots the host system, also a Windows 2000 server. The command to shutdown the remote server uses shutdown.exe with options \\servername /T:30 /R /C. This script is scheduled to run every Sunday at 10:00. I do not have the option of using freeware or public domain software.  

When this script runs as a scheduled task, it hangs forever whilst performing the remote shutdown command. The scheduled task status is executing.
The account the job runs from is the same account I can use successfully from the dos command window.

What can be the problem? Remote access privilege? Which one?


Windows 2000 Server shutdown remote sql server hangs scheduling job and sql srver doesn't reboot

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.