What are NightWatchman shutdown scripts?
The functionality of the NightWatchman service can be extended by creating additional shutdown scripts. Administrators can write Windows scripts in either JScript or VBScript to handle the intelligent shut down of applications, so that no data is lost when performing a user log-off. The scripts can handle eventualities such as saving current versions of all open files, as well as making backups of previously saved versions so users can back out of latest changes if they prefer not to keep them. Any open dialogs are also handled in order to execute the closure of the application in a safe way. NightWatchman is provided with pre-defined scripts that handle the following products: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel and Notepad. To handle other applications you can either contact 1E or write your own additional scripts using the details provided in The NightWatchman Scripting Reference.
