I'll second that. Dameware rocks. And the NT utils are pretty d*mn handy.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:55 PM Subject: RE: scheduling automatic rebooting of server > > 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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