[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 08:46:52 +0100
Ray Costanzo <> wrote on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:26 PM:
I tried something very similar, but failed. Need to look in which file pointed
to where again...
Thx!
> Hi Sorin,
>
> How are the computers in the text file? Just one computer name per line and
> nothing else? If so, you can enter something like this at the command
> prompt to schedule your file every Monday at 8:30 AM.
>
> for /f %a in (D:\computers.txt) do (at \\%a 8:30 /every:M
> C:\Path\To\file.vbs)
>
> This is just to be entered at the command prompt. If you were to put it
> into a .cmd (or .bat) file, the two places where you see %a would have to
> become %%a instead.
>
> Note that D:\computers.txt is the path on your machine to your text file of
> computers.
> Note that C:\Path\To\file.vbs is the local path on the remote machine. By
> default, the AT account runs as the local system, so you can't put your
> target file on a network share, since AT won't have rights to it. So, you'd
> have to copy the file out to everyone's machine.
>
> Ray at work
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-
>> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:23 AM
>> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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...
>>
>>
>
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