Martin Haggarty. I've founds several articles on this but none really answer my question. I have tried to auto download and schedule the install.
But the problem is that the systems still auto reboot following the install when no users are logged in. I'm trying to avoid having to wait for the updates to install during a maintenance event.
Am I missing something? Do I have to invest in other software that will all for this? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. All the same settings than you - run when user is logged or not store password run with highest privileges. Hey Microsoft, are you reading this forum? Thank you. Monday, April 19, PM. You can try to run only when user is logged on, untick the run with highest priviledge.
Under the configure for put: Windows Vista, window server Monday, April 26, AM. Hi, I had the same problem with the Task Scheduler after reboot. The solution provided by Foxtrott has solved it for me. Many thanks for your information about this. Wednesday, June 9, PM. Thank you for describing your solution as it also solved my problem.
I can only hope that Microsoft fixes this bug, because it's virtually impossible to troubleshoot. I would not have figured it on my own. I think more people are running into to this issue than MS imagines. In my case I had an orphaned entry under the Plain key. Thursday, June 24, PM.
Make sure the scheduled task startup type is automatic. Wednesday, July 7, AM. Hi all. Choose the program you want to run. I really hope this helps! Monday, August 29, PM. Hi all, the suggestion point 3 provided by Groove Dev worked with me: Filling the "Start In optional " field with the correspondent directory path has been successfull. Wednesday, September 7, AM. Worked for me as well. It was a simple need of adding the "Start in" field. Wednesday, December 14, PM.
My situation was different. I can run the executable directly, it didn't work run by schedule task. The job showed ran successfully, but nothing happen. Shutdown is pretty easy. Craig Putnam Craig Putnam 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Seems like a reasonable way to save power, if a server's only used during the day and doesn't have great power management. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. So if you wanted your server to reboot weekly you select "weekly". This is the user that the scheduled task will run as. I suggest using an account that has domain admin privileges. At this point you would be done, if you wanted the server to shutdown at the scheduled time.
We are going to select the Open Advanced options when I click finished. Then click Finish. In the Run option you will see the location of the shutdown program. You can also look at the scheduled taks properties and change the schedule or frequency of the reboots.
Just be a bit wary of any other scheduled tasks that would be running at the time you specify Backups, SQL jobs etc. We have schedualed the servers to be doing nothing Sunday morning between midnight and am so it is a great time for a schedualed reboot.. Then we can clear up the backlog of updates requiering a reboot.
I would like to point out how insecure this approach is because the password is in clear text in the registry. Yes, this is possible, however only for Windows Server Open the task scheduler, and select a task to modify or create a new one under the tiggers tab. You can trigger an event based off of an event log. The Server is shutting down but it has a "You can now recycle the power" screen and doesn't actually shutdown completely, therefore doesn't reboot. How can one bypass that screen?
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