[windows2000] Re: Pushing a scheduled job to all computers on a domain
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:31:45 +0100
Sorin Srbu <> wrote on Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:40 PM:
Tried this on a win2k-machine, and indeed, the script seems to be running, but
nothing happens, until you end the task in the task scheduler. It's a minor
bummer though, unless you have many 2k-machines in your domain/group.
> Sullivan, Glenn <> wrote on Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:06 PM:
>
> Now that you mention it, I never tried it on win2k... I'll have to do that.
>
> We don't have that many machines running that OS anyway, so it might not be
> a problem for that long - the hardware is rather old as well... I have good
> expectations that the computers running win2k will all die during this
> summer in the electrical storms, what with all the power-spikes, heat and
> what not. 8-]
>
>
>> Ah... I could have done that.
>>
>> I was really looking for something for Win2K, not XP. Win2K has no
>> command line defragger, and the network-wide versions are too much money.
>>
>>
>> Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
>> David Clark Company Inc.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>> Posted At: Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:46 AM
>> Posted To: Windows 2000
>> Conversation: [windows2000] Re: Pushing a scheduled job to all computers
>> on a domain Subject: [windows2000] Re: Pushing a scheduled job to all
>> computers on a domain
>>
>>
>> Sullivan, Glenn <> wrote on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:25 PM:
>>
>> See below:
>>
>> Defrag_all.vbs
>> ---
>> 'defrag_all.vbs - Defrags all hard disks - Can be run as a Scheduled Task
>> 'C Doug Knox - 3/29/2002
>>
>> Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>>
>> Dim fso, d, dc
>> Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set dc =
>> fso.Drives For Each d in dc
>> If d.DriveType = 2 Then
>> Return = WshShell.Run("defrag " & d & " -f", 1, TRUE) End If
>> Next
>>
>> Set WshShell = Nothing
>> ---
>>
>> From <<<http://www.dougknox.com/xp/xp_fixes.html>>>
>>
>>
>> I use psexec to run a daily inventory, but lately it hasn't run, says
>> there are no admin shares or some such. It worked before... Go figure. 8-/
>>
>> Thx for the clarification on "for ... in"! I googled for it yesterday
>> but the examples weren't that informative and in most cases ambivalent as
>> to what goes where.
>>
>>
>>
>>> For %f in (filename.txt) do echo %f
>>>
>>> This will echo every line in the text file, so replace the "Echo %f"
>>> with a remote AT command, or use PSExec to remotely run AT on that
>>> machine.
>>>
>>> Me, I'd use VBScript to do it if possible in a startup script. Some
>>> samples are in the repository:
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/os/tasks/default .m
>>> spx
>>>
>>> I'd be interested in the Defrag script though... Can you save it as a txt
>>> file and post it?
>>>
>>> Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
>>> David Clark Company Inc.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>>> Posted At: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:23 AM Posted To: Windows 2000
>>> Conversation: [windows2000] Re: Pushing a scheduled job to all computers
>>> on a domain Subject: [windows2000] Re: Pushing a scheduled job to all
>>> computers on
>>
>>> a domain
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave stevens <> wrote on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:07 AM:
>>>
>>> Yupp, seems like the at command will do the thing. I don't however
>>> understand how to tell it to use the computernames I have in the txt-file.
>>>
>>> Some kind of loop like "run this command on the computers in the list"
>>> would be suitable. I recall some "for in %%..." something or other
>>> command in batch scripting, but can never remember how to...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yes, This can be done with the AT command. I believe the AT coomand
>>>> allows you to schedual jobs on a remote computer. You might need to
>>>> direct this to a text file with all the host names. Do a help on AT
>>>> it will offer you options. Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I found a vb-script that runs from the CLI and that defags all
>>>> harddrives it finds on a system. The auhor mentions that it's easy to
>>> schedule
>>> using
>>>> the task scheduler. This would most probably work for us if I set the
>>>> script to execute as System or some other privilegied account, so
>>>> that
>>> the
>>>> normal user (who isn't allowed to run a defrag) can have a
>>> defragged
>>> gd on
>>>> a regular basis.
>>>>
>>>> I'm able to push the script to all clients, but is there a way
>>> to add
>>> a
>>>> task to all client computers from one location (like my admin
>>>> workstation)? I'm not really sure how one would do this. Can you ppl
>>>> suggest a simple way?
>>>>
>>>> TIA.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BW,
>>>>
>>>> Sorin
>>>>
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