We have been using psexec on Windows XP computers to facilitate a reboot message and countdown timer. One, and possibly more computers are re-running the psexec reboot message and rebooting the computer when it is turned on in the morning. This happens to be a remote computer utilizing VPN. I have: Made sure the advertisement is expired. Also checked all advertisements against the computer to make sure nothing else is running. Cleared the client cache on one occasion and reloaded the SCCM client on the PC on another occasion. Changed the status of the advertisement in the registry under the deployment ID to indicate "Successful". So I think I am looking for the correct location in the registry to stop the program from running on the local PC, any suggestions?

To me, that sounds like policy is not being applied. You don't mention it, so I'm guessing that you haven't used Roger Zanders' Client Center to connect to that computer, and then invoke a "policy reset (Hard)". I would try that. Note from Client Center, you can also get a list of all the advertisement policies that are active (according to the computer itself).Standardize. Simplify. Automate.

You can also use the built in report 'show all advertisements for a specific computer' to see if there are any other advertisements running against it, the program could be running against the computer from another advertisement.Kriss Milne, MCSE | Infrastructure Specialist | *Please click 'Vote As Helpful' or 'Mark as Answer' if this post helped you or answered your question*

You can also use the built in report 'show all advertisements for a specific computer' to see if there are any other advertisements running against it, the program could be running against the computer from another advertisement.Kriss Milne, MCSE | Infrastructure Specialist | *Please click 'Vote As Helpful' or 'Mark as Answer' if this post helped you or answered your question*

Ok, thank you. I asked our Security department to approve that tool. I have looked at the open advertisements for the computer and the one in question says it is Expired. No other advertisements are running that program since it was purpose built for that upgrade, so my first guess was that the problem is happening on the local PC. The inability to receive advertisement policy updates occurred to me, which is why I am looking for the specific registry key involved in flagging an advertisement as eith Expired or Successful to hopefully stop it from re-running.

I explained in in my response to Sherry, I checked that. Which led me to believe the PC is not properly applying the Expired status. Possibly due to the VPN connection? VPN has been hard to manage in the past with applications that stretch the limits of application layer functions the way SCCM does. Either way I am still hunting for the cause. Thank you

This is the registry location that I changed from Failed status to Successful in an effort to make it be flagged as complete. Is there another place I can look? I have updated the machine Policy as well. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Mobile Client\Software Distribution\Execution History\System\CHD00227\dedbeb3c-e11f-11e1-8d02-78acc0b43785] "_ProgramID"="reboot_program_script" "_State"="Success" "_RunStartTime"="2012/08/08 01:00:53" "SuccessOrFailureCode"="0" "SuccessOrFailureReason"=""