Scheduled Tasks

NiCkNaMe · 2 May 2009 at 21:01

Hi All,

Not really sure if this should go in here or Programming...

I've got an old ASPX Script that runs a series of tasks (send's a few update emails and updates certain DB values) that i've been running on an XP box that stays permenently logged on.

I basically setup a scheduled task to load IE on the specified page and then killed the IE session afterwards.

If I was to set this up on 2k3 server, and then logged all users off... would the task still run ? I presume not since it physically needs to load the page? I

Is there another decent solution to this... e.g database triggers or the like? (SQL 2005...) :s I have googled but don't really know what im looking for and as it isn't a big problem I CBA spending the entire night googling

Thanks,

Berserker · 2 May 2009 at 21:12

wget.exe

Use that to grab the page instead of IE. Far from the best solution for sure, but it's quick, dirty, and it works.

NiCkNaMe · 2 May 2009 at 21:15

Great Stuff - I'll give that a go. I'm not that (although i'll listen) interested in a 'correct' solution, so long as it works

Thanks.

NiCkNaMe · 3 May 2009 at 00:06

Wget works great by the way Berserker... at least I can migrate the tasks to a server and leave it logged off now

hatrick · 3 May 2009 at 16:26

Scheduled Task will still even if the console/user is not logged on - we have a number of scheduled task that run and interact with applications without having the server console/RDP Session logged on.