RE: shutdown.exe stopped working after recent critical updates
From: Jason Hall [MSFT] (v-jashal_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/10/04
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:52:03 GMT
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>From: jgolub@finitewisdom.com (Joshua Golub)
>Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
>Subject: shutdown.exe stopped working after recent critical updates
>Date: 7 May 2004 07:33:08 -0700
>all-
>
>sometime over the last few weeks, a critical update was applied to my
>win2k servers and the shutdown.exe tool no longer works. it returns
>this error instead:
>
> Unable to shutdown the specified server. Reasons may include:
> ...
>
>i've searched the microsoft sites and have found other reported
>problems with shutdown.exe, but not this one.
>
>does anyone know if a patch is available? also, i've found the
>freeware psShutdown.exe utility, but i'm wary of using it. i try to
>keep freeware off of my production servers.
>
>-joshua golub
>jgolub@finitewisdom.com
>
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Can you tell us what hotfix(es) were installed after the last time you
remember shutdown.exe working?
Also, you can try running FileMon and RegMon (both from
www.sysinternals.com) to see if there is any kind of "access denied" error
occuring.
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