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by hereinoz

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Hi all,

System is Windows 2000 running Office 2000

We have a situation where we do a data backup overnight using task scheduler to run a batch file to create *.rar files which are then copied to another machine. CDs are burnt from these copies on a weekly basis.

We have a user who continually forgets to shut down Outlook on their machine, and whereas RAR does have the ability to enforce archiving of open files, this doesn't work with outlook.pst, so we get in to work and the backup ofthis user's email has failed.

Is there any way that I can get Outlook shut down from within task scheduler or from within a batch file, so I can shut it down before the backup is run?

I must confess I am not all that hopeful, but I will be grateful of any information.

Cheers,
Alan

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by hereinoz

It wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but it does give a reasonably satisfactory solution. I still need to enforce a shutdown to effect the backup, but at least that can be done during business hours and it leaves the archive file to be dealt with later, regardless of whether Outlook is open or not.

Many thanks for the information.

Cheers, Alan

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