Hi,

I need to restart a service every day. I have logon hours restricted at 3:00 am, and the server will logout existing TS connections.

I have two tasks scheduled:

1. "Daily At 3:20 am every day" "start a program" "c:\windows\system32\sc.exe stop myservice"
2. "Daily At 3:22 am every day" "start a program" "c:\windows\system32\sc.exe start myservice"

I came in today to notice that the service wasn't running. I've been digging in logs, and found these entries:

1. For stop task, history:

   a) 3:29:35 am: Action Completed (sc result code 0)

   b) 3:20:00 am: Action Completed (sc result code 0)

2. For start task, history:

   a) 3:29:35 am: Action Completed (sc result code ERROR_SERVICE_ALREADY_RUNNING 1056 (0x420))

   b) 3:22:01 am: Action Completed (sc result code 0)

Checking event logs shows me:

a) 3:29:35 am, Application log, Source myservice, "The service was stopped"

b) 3:29:25 am, System log, Source Service Control Manager, "The myservice service entered the stopped state"

So,

1. What would have caused both tasks to run at 3:29 am?
2. Why don't I see a message from the SCM saying that the service entered the running state?
3. Is this the preferred way to do this?

Thanks!