12 October 2009

Scheduled tasks Disabled: Danger of installing additional components and hotfixes

In some cases the Altiris Object Host Service ATRShost.exe is not stopped properly and times out at the beginning or at the end of an installation or upgrade. The reason is not know yet (by me). If it happens it will leave the Scheduled tasks DISABLED even after a reboot.
There is a quick way to fix: delete all (NS) scheduled tasks except the NS.Weekly.GUID.
Enable this task and run it. It will recreate all schedules.

To prevent it I open the Task Manager and the services.msc.
If the services is not stopped after a minute or so during install then I kill it.


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