Yep - Opalis. Shame that - there aren't many packages in that spot.

Winbatch might be your better bet, in that case. It's been a long time
since I played with those products, too.

Kurt

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Adam Meixler <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had thought the same thing! (was Opalis?)
>
> Some googling seems to suggest that it's not meant for Task Scheduling any 
> more. It can be made to do it, but its strong suit is repeatable Jobs rather 
> than scheduled tasks now.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:30 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Enterprise task scheduler
>
> It's been a lot of years since I touched it (more than 10!) and it's since 
> been acquired by MSFT and rolled into the SC suite, but Orchestrator comes to 
> mind...
>
> Might be worth a look.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Adam Meixler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Happy New Year everyone!
>>
>>
>>
>> I was hoping to get The Lists opinion on a good, un-bloated enterprise
>> task scheduler. Right now we have about a thousand tasks scattered
>> across different servers using the windows scheduled task service and
>> it’s just not doing it for us.
>>
>>
>>
>> It’d be nice if jobs could be pushed down to workers as they were
>> available vs. being scheduled on specific instances, but we at least
>> want a central control of these jobs.
>>
>>
>>
>> We’re open to any ideas that don’t involve CA
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks all
>>
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