How do you remove "Unplanned Outage" from startup

[rwtreke768]

Hello,

we recently had an issue that caused a 2003 server to loose power for only a few seconds but, it was enough to power it off and back ok. When any 2003 server powers back on after an "unplanned outage" a box requires you to enter the information as to why the server went down. I would like to remove this so after a crash of this sort the server will come up normally and resume its expected functions. (We have programs that start at login, but not as a service.)

Out event log is checked daily so, if something does happen we will see that the server went down. We don't need the unplanned outage information entered.

If anyone knows a way to remove this function/feature from 2003 server I would like to give it a try.

Thank you very much for your help.

Robert

 

[fs483]

There are registry modifications that allows you to remove the Unplanned shutdown question box. Just wondering, don't you have UPSes on your servers ? I'm sure you know that servers (specially Exchange and SQL servers) don't like dirty shutdowns !

 

[xmsre]

Who needs an UPS? All you need is hope, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust. Seriously, rubbing it in probably doesn't help much right now. Rwtreke768 has likely learned the value of an UPS by this point. Think happy thoughts...