Schedule the shutdown selected clients.

Hi all,
We running a Win 2000 domain with XP sp2 clients.
I have been asked to find a way to shutdown selected clients on a Friday
evening. Is there any way to schedule this through a GPO?
I am considering configuring a script to run shutdown.exe in a batch file
but obviously this offers no way to control the process centrally. Does
anyone know of a better way?
Ideally I would like to save any documents left open before the shutdown.
All advice is greatly appreciated. Simon.Hi
This is the SQL Server NG, you may get a bettwer answer by posting this to
the .Windows.* NG.
Off the top of my head, look at http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/ and
http://www.microsoft.com/MOM/
Regards
Mike
"Simon" wrote:
> Hi all,
> We running a Win 2000 domain with XP sp2 clients.
> I have been asked to find a way to shutdown selected clients on a Friday
> evening. Is there any way to schedule this through a GPO?
> I am considering configuring a script to run shutdown.exe in a batch file
> but obviously this offers no way to control the process centrally. Does
> anyone know of a better way?
> Ideally I would like to save any documents left open before the shutdown.
> All advice is greatly appreciated. Simon.
>
>

Schedule a report to run at a particular time with user filled parameters

I have a report that I would like to run in the evening due to high database usage that required a user to fill in selected parameters. Is there anyway to allow a user to fill in the report parameters and have it scheduled to run at 3:00 AM.

Thanks,

Chris

You could use a data driven subscription, which relies on a table you create to store the parameters for the report. Then provide the user with a simple interface to set the parameters in the table.

Or you could let them create a linked report in their My Reports folder, and set up their own subscription from there, which allows them to specify parameters values.

|||Would you mind elaborating on this technique, or pass along some documentation/samples for this? I am most interested in how you setup this 'table' that stores the parameters for the report and of course how you configure the report to use the values in the table.

Thanks!|||

I never did find a great solution to this problem. Please let me know if you do find one.

Thanks,

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What part of the solutions that you were offered didn't you like? I thought they were both good, depending on business requirements, and I wasn't too sure from what you described which one would meet yours... but didn't expect to hear that you used neither <s>.

So... what was the issue in your case?

>L<

PS. You can also roll your own. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2022350&SiteID=1. But I'm not (yet) convinced you need to, in your case...

|||Neither of the above options worked for you?

Schedule a report to run at a particular time with user filled parameters

I have a report that I would like to run in the evening due to high database usage that required a user to fill in selected parameters. Is there anyway to allow a user to fill in the report parameters and have it scheduled to run at 3:00 AM.

Thanks,

Chris

You could use a data driven subscription, which relies on a table you create to store the parameters for the report. Then provide the user with a simple interface to set the parameters in the table.

Or you could let them create a linked report in their My Reports folder, and set up their own subscription from there, which allows them to specify parameters values.

|||Would you mind elaborating on this technique, or pass along some documentation/samples for this? I am most interested in how you setup this 'table' that stores the parameters for the report and of course how you configure the report to use the values in the table.

Thanks!
|||

I never did find a great solution to this problem. Please let me know if you do find one.

Thanks,

|||

What part of the solutions that you were offered didn't you like? I thought they were both good, depending on business requirements, and I wasn't too sure from what you described which one would meet yours... but didn't expect to hear that you used neither <s>.

So... what was the issue in your case?

>L<

PS. You can also roll your own. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2022350&SiteID=1. But I'm not (yet) convinced you need to, in your case...

|||Neither of the above options worked for you?

Schedule a report to run at a particular time with user filled parameters

I have a report that I would like to run in the evening due to high database usage that required a user to fill in selected parameters. Is there anyway to allow a user to fill in the report parameters and have it scheduled to run at 3:00 AM.

Thanks,

Chris

You could use a data driven subscription, which relies on a table you create to store the parameters for the report. Then provide the user with a simple interface to set the parameters in the table.

Or you could let them create a linked report in their My Reports folder, and set up their own subscription from there, which allows them to specify parameters values.

|||Would you mind elaborating on this technique, or pass along some documentation/samples for this? I am most interested in how you setup this 'table' that stores the parameters for the report and of course how you configure the report to use the values in the table.

Thanks!
|||

I never did find a great solution to this problem. Please let me know if you do find one.

Thanks,

|||

What part of the solutions that you were offered didn't you like? I thought they were both good, depending on business requirements, and I wasn't too sure from what you described which one would meet yours... but didn't expect to hear that you used neither <s>.

So... what was the issue in your case?

>L<

PS. You can also roll your own. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2022350&SiteID=1. But I'm not (yet) convinced you need to, in your case...

|||Neither of the above options worked for you?