JSI Tip 8074. ATONCE.EXE freeware schedules a job on a remote computer based upon the remote computer's time.

Jerold Schulman

May 24, 2004

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Download ATONCE.zip and unzip it to a folder in your path.

ATONCE.EXE : Command scheduling utility : by Steven WettbergUsage: ATONCE \COMPUTERNAME COMMANDATONCE schedules a job (Batch file or command line program) to run 14 seconds from the execution of this command. This command calculates the execution timebased upon the remote computer time and timezone offset. The time on the localcomputer is disregarded. This makes the local machine time/data irrelevant whenissuing the ATOnce Schedule command.If you have every tried running programs like the Resource Kit 'soon.exe' youwill find that they are very dependent upon your time matching the remote machine time, and heaven forbid you are in a different time zone. Note: This program will automatically start the schedule service if it's not already running on the remote machine.Example: AtOnce \SomeNTMachine C:NtUtilsSomeCmds.Bat

NOTE: Use the fully qualified file name on the remote computer.



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