Is it possible to place a shortcut on a client which will run a bat (or vbscript) file on a server? (as opposed to the script running on the client)
It seems pretty basic, but I'm at a loss how this would be done.
Shortcut on client to run bat file on a server
batch-filevbscript
Best Answer
There is an excellent suite of tools called PsTools which includes PsExec. PsExec allows you to remotely execute programs on another machine (or in this case a server). You have to have the appropriate authority/credentials to do so of course.
The following psexec command would run the batch file my_batch_file.bat located in directory "C:\batch" (on the server) as user 'johndoe' with account password 'Asdf1234' on server with name 'ServerName':
Note that the batch file would have to exist on the server already in this example.
Read more about PsExec here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553