Run services etc. in Terminal Server

[Trond]

Hi!

I don't know about Terminal Server, but one client of us is having a
problem. He is running Windows Terminal Server and every morning he
must logon to the terminal server and run an Access file(which
generates a report to file).

Are there any possibilities to make this task automatically running?
I.e. can I set the Windows scheduler to run a task when I'm not logged
on the Terminal Server? I guess not, but are there any other
possibilities?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Yes, you can. This has really not much to do with the server being
a Terminal Server or not.
You can schedule the task in Task Scheduler (you can do it as
Administrator, or the user can do it himself, if you give him the
proper permissions to do so).
The user can later on the day use a TS session to see and print the
resulting report (if that's what he wants to do), or you can make
sure that the report is saved in the users home directory.
Assuming that the user has access to the same home directory from
his normal workstation session, he doesn't even have to open a TS
session to get the result. In that case, you could just as well
(possibly better) schedule the task on the file server that hosts
the Access database.

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