Shutdown in AT Scheduler

[DebiJo]

I have the AT account set for system account. I added an AT task to shutdown the system. The AT tasks runs, but the system does not shutdown. Gives me an errorlevel=1. When I had the AT account set as a domain admin, it works. Does a system level account not have security to reboot? (This is a domain contoller.)

Thanks in advance,
Debi

 

[PoliMalaka]

Interesting. I run AT jobs from my desktop (I'm a domain admin) and have no problems. (AT \\server 18:00 c:\reskit\restart.bat)
Why create a seperate account for this?

 

[DebiJo]

We have 250 remote servers that with updates or whatever, I'll send a batch script to each's AT schedule to do a reboot. The AT service account used to have a domain user, but I want to remove it so it won't be so painful to change passwords on a regular basis. However, changing it to "system account" is what I am trying, and it doesn't seem to work.

Thanks again,
Debi

 

[DebiJo]

Maybe this is the reason??

On a domain controller, all user accounts are domain accounts and not local machine accounts...

It's implying that anything trying to use a local account will fail, since the account doesn't exist.

Bummer...