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?

Re: automatic reboot by Dave

Dave
Wed Mar 26 11:41:26 PDT 2008

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?


Re: automatic reboot by Russ

Russ
Wed Mar 26 12:48:26 PDT 2008

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?
>



Re: automatic reboot by Christopher

Christopher
Wed Mar 26 13:24:01 PDT 2008

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
>
> --
>
> SBITS.Biz
> Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
> Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist.
> MCP, MCPS, MCNPS, (MCP-SBS)
> North America Remote SBS2003 Support - http://www.SBITS.Biz
> Information on Small Business Server 2008 - http://www.sbs2008.com
> Information on Essentials Business Server - http://www.ebs2008.com
>
>
>
> -
>
> "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?
> >
>
>
>

Re: automatic reboot by Russ

Russ
Wed Mar 26 14:00:17 PDT 2008

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

--

SBITS.Biz
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist.
MCP, MCPS, MCNPS, (MCP-SBS)
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Information on Small Business Server 2008 - http://www.sbs2008.com
Information on Essentials Business Server - http://www.ebs2008.com



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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
>>
>> --
>>
>> SBITS.Biz
>> Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
>> Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist.
>> MCP, MCPS, MCNPS, (MCP-SBS)
>> North America Remote SBS2003 Support - http://www.SBITS.Biz
>> Information on Small Business Server 2008 - http://www.sbs2008.com
>> Information on Essentials Business Server - http://www.ebs2008.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>>
>> "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?
>> >
>>
>>
>>



Re: automatic reboot by Christopher

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
>
> --
>
> SBITS.Biz
> Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
> Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist.
> MCP, MCPS, MCNPS, (MCP-SBS)
> North America Remote SBS2003 Support - http://www.SBITS.Biz
> Information on Small Business Server 2008 - http://www.sbs2008.com
> Information on Essentials Business Server - http://www.ebs2008.com
>
>
>
> -
>
> "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
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> SBITS.Biz
> >> Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
> >> Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist.
> >> MCP, MCPS, MCNPS, (MCP-SBS)
> >> North America Remote SBS2003 Support - http://www.SBITS.Biz
> >> Information on Small Business Server 2008 - http://www.sbs2008.com
> >> Information on Essentials Business Server - http://www.ebs2008.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -
> >>
> >> "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?
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>