Legacy Operating Systems and Scheduled Task Parameters

Last Modified

Wed Jun 05 09:01 GMT 2019

Description

• When using task execution to e.g install a patch the parameters may not be carried over.
• For Example:
  • patch.exe /silent /norestart
• What may happen is "patch.exe" being executed but "/silent /norestart" not working.
• Same exact command works fine within command prompt on the device.

Environment

• N-able N-central
• Older installed agent compared to the N-able N-central version
  • Generally limited to legacy/deprecated operating systems

Solution

• The older agent often cannot handle the newer methods N-able N-central uses to pass task parameters due to changes across N-able N-central versions.
• As a workaround it could be used a batch file to run the same command.