Christopher
Wed Mar 26 14:16:00 PDT 2008
perfect, I can definatly live with that, thanks for the advise!
"Russ (SBITS.Biz)" wrote:
> Ok...
> But I don't typically have a SBS Server Reboot Just Because it's Scheduled
>
> If the server hangs and it's a Dell Server.
> The DELL Open Manager Software (FREE)
> Will reboot a Hung server.
>
> For now I'd urge you to not make a schedule, post the issues here,
> then we can fix them. and you don't have to do the reboots...
>
> How does that sound?
>
> Russ
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> "Christopher" <Christopher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9A636CF0-41D9-4E86-A188-01003F1BCD5B@microsoft.com...
> > nothing is wrong with the server, 75% of the time when a problem arises in
> > my
> > world rebooting the server solves it and the issue is never seen again,
> > the
> > issues are minor. the reboots in this cases are far and inbetween, i
> > reboot
> > more for MS updates, 4 to 1. i just wanted to know how to do a
> > auto-reboot.
> > I live 1.5 miles away from my buisness I'm not worried about getting a
> > midnight call because it wouldn't happen were a 8am-5pm buisness, I'm
> > first
> > in and last out anyway. I wouldn't schedule a reboot 5 days into my 2
> > week
> > vacation. I understand that its possible issues can arise but it never
> > hurts
> > to explorer and ask questions. going a little deeper I wanted to set it
> > for
> > once a month @ 1:00am Sunday. this way a reboot would not cause the
> > weekday
> > backups to fail nor dump anyone out while working. Any issues that are on
> > the horizon due to the need to reboot would clear, were running a MS
> > operating system...they need rebooted from time to time.
> > but i'm interesting in any info you have on the matter, again i simple
> > wanted to know how.
> >
> > "Russ (SBITS.Biz)" wrote:
> >
> >> Agree,
> >> Solve the Issue... don't band-aid.
> >>
> >> Chris, WHY do you need the server Rebooted?
> >>
> >> Russ
> >>
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> >> "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:18D48CB3-52DD-4664-ADA2-5B451BE07563@microsoft.com...
> >> > You can write a simple batch file using the Shutdown command, then
> >> > schedule it in Scheduled Tasks. Open a cmd prompt and type shutdown /?
> >> > to
> >> > see the options.
> >> >
> >> > I recommend against this for a variety of reasons. Primarily, I don't
> >> > ever want a server to reboot unattended. Any little thing that causes
> >> > it
> >> > to fail to restart results in a call to me, and Murphy's Law guarantees
> >> > I
> >> > will be on vacation or asleep when it happens. IMO if you have an
> >> > issue
> >> > that you think requires a scheduled restart, it would be better to
> >> > troubleshoot and eliminate the issue than to do a scheduled restart.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Christopher" <Christopher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:0B5DEBF8-053E-4565-87A7-64C7011154F7@microsoft.com...
> >> >>i want to reboot my server sunday @ 1:00am but i don't want to stay up
> >> >>or
> >> >> wake myself up to do it. How can i setup an auto-reboot so that i can
> >> >> do
> >> >> this automatically?
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
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