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Proposed AnswerWarn users server shutting down

  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:21 AMchel327 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi there,

    Our users save their work to a network share on a server.  We would like to warn them when the server is about to be shutdown so they can save their work and log off.  A long time ago we use to use net send but of course this is now a security hole and has been disabled.  Any other ideas.

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  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:25 AMKudrat Sapaev Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Have you considered sending an email?
    сила в справедливости
     
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:44 PMchel327 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    We are in the education sector so while we email them and put a notice up when they first login still we get the odd user is logged on at the time we want to take the server down.
     
  • Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:11 PMKarl Mitschke Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Don't shutdown during hours when people are expecting to use the server?

    Schedule maintenance and let people know in advance that the system will be unavailable on "Saturday, October 31st from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM"

    Karl
     
  • Friday, October 30, 2009 1:25 AMchel327 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Yeah thanks we are scheduling out of hours.