Check out Dameware Utilities. I have their remote control package on my servers and no issues what so ever. Dameware also has various utilities that come in handy as well.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -K.Borndale IT Manager Sybari Software 631.630.8569 -direct dial 631.439.0689 -fax http://www.sybari.com "One man's ceiling is another man's floor" |---------+-----------------------------------> | | Ken Cornetet | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | m> | | | Sent by: | | | bounce-exchange-148870@l| | | s.swynk.com | | | | | | | | | 04/24/2002 05:38 PM | | | Please respond to | | | "Exchange Discussions" | | | | |---------+-----------------------------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | cc: | | Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| I agree about PCAnywhere. Things definitely improved when we upgraded from 8 to 9. I'd like to pull it off my servers altogether, but considering that my servers are all over the world, I can't really do that. On the other hand, some of my servers with PCAnywhere 8 are rock-solid, so I can't say for sure it's a problem. I tried to talk my boss into letting me switch to VNC, but "freeware" still scares management around here ("But who will you call for support?"). I'm really looking forward to win2k and terminal services - no more 3rd party remote control. -----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server Take PCAnywhere off the box and see if that improves your stability. And no, I'm not joking. I've never once seen a system that was more stable with that installed than without it. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:47 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > Because ASP gets senile quickly. If we don't reboot the OWA > server weekly, we start seeing ASP errors on the OWA server. > > Likewise, we can count on the IMS servers to start flaking > out after a month or two if we don't reboot them. Twice > monthly is probably overkill, but since the reboots are > "free" (ie: users never notice), we go for twice monthly. > > Mailbox servers tend to be a bit more stable, but prior to > the reboots, we would occasionally start seeing errors, and > when we tried to manually reboot, the exchange services would > never go down cleanly. > > In honesty, we started these reboots in the NT SP5 & MSX SP2 > days. We've not tried reducing them since we went to 6a & SP3. > > For the people on the list who insist that periodic reboots > aren't needed: please save yourselves the effort of telling > me how reboots aren't required if you have quality hardware > and good admin practices. The boxes are HP netservers, lotsa > RAM and CPU, and are running on EMC disk arrays. Likewise, > our administration is VERY conservative. We do nothing to the > servers unless we fully understand and test first on separate > test systems. The only software on these boxes other than NT > and Exchange is PCAnywhere and Legato networker client. > > I like Exchange. I like Exchange a lot. But it is not > bug-free. I've found that periodic reboots tend to keep > obscure bugs obscure. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:21 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > But why are the reboots required? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:17 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > If you are into Perl, I've got a script that I use to reboot > our MSX55 servers (monthly for mailbox servers, twice monthly > for IMS, weekly for OWA). It could undoubtedly be tweaked for > what you want. > > It shuts down the MSX services before the reboot (and > verifies that they do indeed stop). After the reboot is > complete, it verifies that any service running at the time of > reboot is running after the reboot. > > Sends email showing the results. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Cornett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:34 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > > Does anyone know how to schedule the automatic rebooting of > Windows 2000 Servers. I have looked on the their website and > have found next to nothing about how to do this. What I am > trying to do is on our Mail server I want to have the machine > reboot say every Sunday night at a certain time. 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