MCShutdown is included in both MarvelClient Upgrade and MarvelClient Roaming licenses.
NOTE that it is not needed to ensure that the client is closed before performing an upgrade, since shutdown functionality is already built into and taken care of by MCUpgrade(.exe).
The two most prominent use cases for MCShutdown are
- Shutdown the Notes client every evening automatically
- Automatic shutdown of the Notes client in case users shutdown Windows, without closing Notes.
This is especially helpful in Citrix / VDI environments, in case users forget to log off from the remote session and the server automatically logs off the user session at a later time.
The command line options for MCShutdown are
| Command line option | Description |
|---|---|
/shutdownsilent | Automatically closes any open Notes / Designer / Admin client windows and answers all message boxes so that any open documents are not saved and any dialog boxes are automatically responded to, so that the client can close without any end user interaction. E.g. "Do you want to exit Notes > Yes", "Do you want to replicate > No", "Do you want to save > No", and similar. All messageboxes are responded to independent of language. |
| /shutdown /ui | Automatically sends a close message (similar to ALT+F4) to the topmost Notes / Designer / Admin window and waits for the end user to answer all message boxes that prevent the client from closing. |
| /shutdownauto /auto | Waits until a Windows shutdown is detected and if so, automatically initiates /shutdownsilent. If MCShutdown is launched when starting Notes (through a MarvelClient Run Program Action, for example), it is best to not use /noautoterm. If MCShutdown is launched when starting Windows, through a logon script, then it is best to use /noautoterm. Without this additional switch, MCShutdown will automatically terminate, if it does not find any notes2.exe, nlnotes.exe, designer.exe and/or admin.exe process. |
Example command lines
absolutefilepath\MCShutdown.exe /shutdownsilent
absolutefilepath\MCShutdown.exe /shutdown
absolutefilepath\MCShutdown.exe /auto
absolutefilepath\MCShutdown.exe /auto /noautoterm