>Folks,
>
>Three servers located out and about which I have administrator rights to need a 1/2 hour data audit batch job to be run nightly weekdays.
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>I want those jobs to run without anyone logged on (necessarily).
>
>Can the scheduler on a server start a job if no one is logged on? If so, How?
The Windows Task Scheduler can do what you want. No-one needs be logged on at the server console; the Task Manager can start a job "as" a specified user (you enter the user name and password when you define the scheduled job). It's pretty straightforward to use.
If you're running a .BAT or .CMD file you may need to define the executable as something like this:
CMD.EXE /C MyBatchJob.CMD
* rather than just MyBatchJob.CMD
Regards. Al
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