er - no.. that's not the issue..
The Ops staff had admin rights with an alternate account. If you log in with admin rights, the uptime tool uses the registry to find the boot time and such similar records. Accurate enough, but if you are not an admin - as the Ops team was when they were logged into their workstations - the tool "appears" to work, and does so by looking for the boot record in the event log. Not finding the boot record, it takes the "oldest" record in the log as the boot time. I guess the team the wrote the tool never had to dump and archive their event logs!
Doc - if my staff was using admin accounts for normal logins, I'd have a real issue with that! The problem with the tool is that it appears to respond normally, except for a short message at the end - not where you'd be focusing your attention when doing an uptime check. You need to either use RunAs, or log directly into the server with your admin account to get accurate data.
Just something to be aware of if you choose to use this tool, that's all. For the record, I use this tool extensively, but only when I'm logged in as an admin.
Glenn
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