I started out with what I thought was a simple task. I wanted to get an email if my building looses power and when it comes back online. My mail is web based but allows smtp and I have an executable called mailsend.exe. I created a batch file (.bat) with the fully qualified path to the exe with desired parameters. I can run the batch file from a command prompt without any problem. I get the email. Next was to add it as a shutdown script in the Group Policy Editor. My problem is that I don't know the order that things get killed during a shutdown. Is the script (batch file) the first thing to happen on a shutdown? The last thing? Is it synchronous? Asynchronous? How to I ensure the resources needed to execute the batch file will not be destroyed before I can run them or that they get forced to shutdown before they are complete? Also, in the batch file, I am simply putting the exe (fully qualified) with parameters. Is that safe or can I only use command mode internal commands?
Thanks in advance!